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

  • Kloud
    0•11 months ago

    @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

    • @ian@feddit.ukOP
      1•11 months ago

      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@feddit.ukOP
          1•11 months ago

          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.

          • Kloud
            0•11 months ago

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

            • @ian@feddit.ukOP
              1•11 months ago

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

              • Kloud
                0•11 months ago

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

                • @ian@feddit.ukOP
                  1•11 months ago

                  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.

                  • Kloud
                    0•11 months ago

                    @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)