KDE @lemmy.kde.social ian @feddit.uk 10 mo. ago

Sync to Samba Share via GUI [ unsolved ]

I’m looking for a way in Plasma to backup and sync my data from PC to a LAN Samba share on my NAS, using a GUI program.

The many sync apps (Grsync, Unison, Lucky, RealTime, Kup etc.) I’ve tried over many years, don’t let me set a remote/samba target. Most navigate locally only. I would mount the share, but nobody I’ve found knows of a GUI way to permanently mount it.

Everything else I need on Plasma has a GUI solution. Just a sync fails. I’d be grateful to hear of a GUI solution

You're viewing part of a thread.

Show Context

38 comments

@ian
> Also I suspect running an app just to mount the share seems like an iffy workaround.

There is always some process mounting the shares, be it graphical or not, even on windows

> And no I don’t really want to mount the share at all.

Ah, yes, then you can try freefilesync, it supports a bunch of clouds and ftp, smb, etc
There is also rclone
- There is always some process mounting the shares, be it graphical or not, even on windows
  
  OK. Thanks. I thought the fstab entry looked a lot less involved, process wise.
  
  Ah, yes, then you can try freefilesync, it supports a bunch of clouds and ftp, smb, etc There is also rclone
  
  Freefile sync Files mode, can't navigate to the LAN and Cloud mode only has SFTP, FTP and Google Drive. I tried anyway and it did not like it. Maybe there is a trick.
  
  Rclone command line tool has a web GUI mode. I'll try that next. Edit: No go. It seems the command line is needed to launch the rclone Web interface.
  
  @ian
  For rclone I use this: https://kapitainsky.github.io/RcloneBrowser/
  
  As for freefilesync, I mixed it up with something, sorry. You are right, it doesn't support smb sadly
  
  Yes I tried the RcloneBrowser. But there is no way to create a new Sync in the GUI. Only manage already configured ones. Unless it's well hidden.
  
  @ian
  Yes, but doing it in terminal doesn't require any obscure commands, it will guide you through and ask questions for everything
  
  The terminal is obscure in itself. I'm not sure how to start it or what commands to use.
  
  @ian
  There is a button in the gui to add a remote which opens a terminal which asks you for stuff
  
  Oh thats what that was. It looked like an error message. So I tried it. Horrible UX, and it did not have samba. I tried a few of the alternatives and it didn't manage to connect.
  
  @ian
  Ah, I think it spawns xterm by default, which looks bad. And it has smb, does not have it for you?
  (It's option 44 for me)
  
  Thanks I founf CIFS/smb on 35. It connected. Now trying to find out how to use the remote.

You've viewed 38 comments.