Use Syncthing.
Works a breeze, does require an install on the devices, but man it just works.
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noodlejetski@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I kid you not, I was actually looking for a solution like that yesterday. hopefully it’ll handle a few tens of gigabytes between my two Linux laptops.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
This is one file at a time. It’s designed more for very quick “Oops I need that photo” sort of stuff.
What you want to do is better served by NFS, SMB or SFTP.
zingo@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Or Syncthing if they want to sync gb’s of files between computers.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Synced many terabytes, over WiFi, Ethernet and the Internet with Syncthing. It works for all use cases, large and small.
zingo@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
When we are talking terabytes of data there are faster ways for the initial sync job.
I would just use rsync/sftp/robocopy or similar for that first copy for faster transfers, then setup Syncthing on those shares for delta syncs.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 7 months ago
ugh.
Fontasia@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Am I allowed to think it’s weird the entire open source community can’t compete with SMB?
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
SMB is a protocol that can be used with Samba software in Linux since many years, so there is no need to compete I figure. Depending on the use case, I like to use rsync for copying files across.