Comment on What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
What’s wrong with rsync? If you don’t like IP addresses, use a domain name. If you use certificate authentication, you can tab complete the folders. It’s a really nice UX IMO.
If you’ll do this a lot, just mount the target directory with sshfs or NFS. Then use rsync or a GUI file manager.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Just don’t run rsync as a daemon as that’s a security nightmare
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Why would you do that? That sounds awful…
jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
The daemon maintains state, so the transfers start quicker because rsync doesn’t have to scan the filesystem.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
It is, rsync sends data in plain text. There is a optional password that is also sent in plain text.