FTP settings to run back up website on different server

Yes Brian i would thought so too. Just trying to figure how.
I’m the root user “mike” and i have set up another user “Weather” As mike root i have 775 permissions set up for the var/www/html folder. I’m thinking i need to change the owner to Weather as i read someplace the root/mike cannot edit or change anything in the www/html.
Another issue is i can’t FTP using the user Weather, i can only use SFTP using filezilla.