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How to sync desktop like onedrive, but not one drive? (self.linux)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by mortalic to c/linux
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I'm currently running kubuntu 23.10 and have been distro hopping a lot lately. I'm going to continue to do so but the tedium of saving everything off is a royal pain.

Backup solutions across distro's don't always work, plus the overhead of backing up and restoring is almost more work than just copy/pasting most stuff.

In windows obviously, you're damn near forced to use one drive these days, and it made me wonder if there is a similar cloud service, or self hosted service that might accomplish a similar task.

I've got an unraid server I can use, and there are options there it appears, but the choices are almost overwhelming.

So I thought I'd just ask all of you, what solution mimics a cloud desktop like onedrive the closest?

EDIT: To be more specific, I'm mostly just referring to dekstop contents, Documents, Downloads etc, Not config data. Bonus points if I can add folders too.

EDIT2: Thank you everyone for your awesome suggestions! I went with syncthing. I also tried Mega which crashed pretty much instantly for some reason. Syncthing seems to be exactly what I need and I can just point it at my Unraid server.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I can think of lots of reasons not to use it, but dropbox does what you want including shell integration it's pretty much identical to onedrive on windows (in mint anyway, so i assume ubuntu as well)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My problem with dropbox was it only has the one folder it "syncs".

I was using Google drive on windows before the switch and I could tell it to sync any random folder on my computer, on any of the 7 drives... The Linux client for dropbox wouldn't let me do that and I had more stuff I wanted backed up than fit on my main drive.

The best alternative I have found was kDrive by infomaniak. Servers are in Switzerland, so it takes a bit to upload the initial sync when it's as big as I needed, but the day to day syncing changes is not noticeable. Linux client is great, and it's an appimage (I believe?) so it should be pretty much the same on any Linux distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh there's a long list of reasons to not use it. I use jottacloud with rsync personally. Dropbox does however provide that basic integrated functionality in a noob friendly way.

[–] mortalic 1 points 11 months ago

I forgot about Dropbox... I do have an account but yeah they are a bit too much, in the way these days.