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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 18:42:26 JST minute

   are there any best practice scripts or general wisdom for using rsync or unison as a simple dropbox/drive alternative where you have files/docs on your own server and your computers auto sync to/from it? is there something a bit more advanced (merges or versioning incl? i guess auto backup tool on the server would be enough...) i want to move away from syncthing also, and don't want to use p2p stuff, just simple client/server star architecture.

   • Teoh Han Hui (teohhanhui@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 18:46:46 JST Teoh Han Hui

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     @mntmn https://github.com/rclone/rclone

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 18:54:25 JST minute

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     unison's "repeat watch" looks good, and rclone's bisync, which is not yet production grade apparently

   • Filip M. Nowak (fmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 19:44:09 JST Filip M. Nowak

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     @mntmn matter of taste and use-case, but what you describe sounds like Syncthing to me. it allows versioning, LAN-oriented discovery of peers. nice thing is that learning curve is gentle and it's usable for non-nerds; has decent web ui too. one drawback is that recently project killed android client, and most of users migrated to most well known fork. very reliable in my experience.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 19:48:06 JST minute

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     • CellularMoose

     @cellularmoose appears to be built in for unison's repeat=watch, at least on linux

   • CellularMoose (cellularmoose@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 19:48:07 JST CellularMoose

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     @mntmn Do you know which file monitoring program you are using? I was trying to do the exact same thing when I saw your post.