Hello selfhosted! Sometimes I have to transfer big files or a large amounts of small files in my homelab. I used rsync but specifying the IP address and the folders and everything is bit fiddly. I thought about writing a bash script but before I do that I wanted to ask you about your favourite way to achieve this. Maybe I am missing out on an awesome tool I wasn’t even thinking about.

Edit: I settled for SFTP in my GUI filemanager for now. When I have some spare time I will try to look into the other options too. Thank you for the helpful information.

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    3•3 months ago

    Sounds very straight forward. Do you have a samba docker container running on your server or how do you do that?

    • drktEnglish
      11•3 months ago

      I just type sftp://[ip, domain or SSH alias] into my file manager and browse it as a regular folder

    • @[email protected]English
      4•3 months ago

      I have two servers, one Mac and one Windows. For the Mac I just map directly to the smb share, for the Windows it’s a standard network share. My desktop runs Linux and connects to both with ease.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•3 months ago

      Set up smb on my file share VM.
      My dedicated docker host accesses it through an NFS mount.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vLEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      I dont have a docker container, I just have Samba running on the server itself.

      I do have an owncloud container running, which is mapped to a directory. And I have that shared out through samba so I can access it through my file manager. But that’s unnecessary because owncloud is kind of trash.