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.
sftp
All my machines have my keys, nothing to set up, nothing to tear down.
What do you mean by specifying IP address?
rsync over an SMB share was pretty seamless.
What’s wrong with rsync? If you don’t like IP addresses, use a domain name. If you use certificate authentication, you can tab complete the folders. It’s a really nice UX IMO.
If you’ll do this a lot, just mount the target directory with sshfs or NFS. Then use rsync or a GUI file manager.
you can use a regular ftp server with administrator and user rights, distribute rights to those who replenish, and those who just take - guests at home I transfer in this way from computer to computer without connecting them to a common network, what could be simpler? why invent some ways with keys or bash if there is a 40-year-old technology that just works great, and to open ftp it is enough to enter the IP address in the explorer
Not gonna lie, I just map a network share and copy and paste through the gui.
Sounds very straight forward. Do you have a samba docker container running on your server or how do you do that?
I just type
sftp://[ip, domain or SSH alias]into my file manager and browse it as a regular folder
scpscp is deprecated.
SCP, the protocol, is deprecated. scp, the command, just uses the SFTP protocol these days. I find its syntax convenient.
Oh does it? I didn’t realize that. I’ve just switched over to rsync completely.
Since OpenSSH version 9.0, so like mid '22. So as long as you’re not running something more out of date than that.
Snapdrop if they both have a gui/webbrowser. https://github.com/SnapDrop/snapdrop
Scp otherwise
Or https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop if you don’t want to support a project bought out by LimeWire
