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Sync to Samba Share via GUI [ unsolved ] (feddit.uk)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (21 children)

Typing magic spells is not something I want to explain to my kids. Bad usability is bad usability, even if they have to do it just once. Also it's not always worked for me. Maybe I got just 1 letter wrong? That is the weakness with a hack. Some time ago I did autostart smb4k. But after a while it no longer mounted any shares. Also I suspect running an app just to mount the share seems like an iffy workaround. Does everyone do it? And no I don't really want to mount the share at all. Yes I can already access it via Dolphin easily. But then I'd have to manually copy any new files and navigate to folders every time. More poor usability compared to 1 click in a sync app. I think Plasma is better than this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (9 children)

@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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@ian
Yes, but doing it in terminal doesn't require any obscure commands, it will guide you through and ask questions for everything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The terminal is obscure in itself. I'm not sure how to start it or what commands to use.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@ian
There is a button in the gui to add a remote which opens a terminal which asks you for stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

@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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks I founf CIFS/smb on 35. It connected. Now trying to find out how to use the remote.

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