If you want a easy, reliable and cross-platform way to share files between computers, phones, etc, it may be of your interest.

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This is one file at a time. It’s designed more for very quick “Oops I need that photo” sort of stuff.

    What you want to do is better served by NFS, SMB or SFTP.

    • zingo@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Or Syncthing if they want to sync gb’s of files between computers.

        • zingo@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          When we are talking terabytes of data there are faster ways for the initial sync job.

          I would just use rsync/sftp/robocopy or similar for that first copy for faster transfers, then setup Syncthing on those shares for delta syncs.

      • Fontasia@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        Am I allowed to think it’s weird the entire open source community can’t compete with SMB?

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          1 year ago

          SMB is a protocol that can be used with Samba software in Linux since many years, so there is no need to compete I figure. Depending on the use case, I like to use rsync for copying files across.