suggestions for sync

[Phil Marsh]

Hi all,
I'm considering Nextcloud for file sync. Does anyone have experience with
Nextcloud's sync and clients for file sync? I had good experience using
Owncloud for this, but unfortunately Owncloud doesn't support PHP 8.x and
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 on my server.
Thanks,
Phil

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 11:52 AM Phil Marsh <microcraftx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions,
> Phil
>
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 9:53 AM Stephen Warren <
> swarren-tag-list-nclug at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>
>> On 9/14/23 17:57, Phil Marsh wrote:
>> > Hi Stephen,
>> > I've had good luck with Unison. The only issue is that it appears to me
>> > that it's designed to sync directories on the same machine. However,
>> I'm
>> > thinking it could be used with NFS mounts to sync across LAN or
>> internet.
>> > While this isn't the most elegant solution, I think it could be the
>> > best. The only issue is what happens if the NFS fails to mount? Would
>> > Unison then either delete all the files on the synced directory or copy
>> > the files to the empty mountpoint?
>>
>> At least the GUI version of Unison won't have this issue; it displays a
>> list of changes that it is going to propagate, and you have the option
>> to abort the sync, or tell it to sync only a subset of the changes. I
>> have never used the text-mode version of Unison, but I imagine it works
>> the same.
>>
>> As Bob mentioned, it will run over SSH just fine. SSH is 100% the
>> easiest way to sync between machines. While I do have a VPN between some
>> of my machines, I still sync over SSH on top of the VPN simply because
>> this is simple and "just works"; no need to mess around setting up
>> anything else when SSH is already there.
>>
>>
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