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How do you manage your server files? (reddthat.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted
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I'm currently debating on how to manage files on my servers. I have a jellyfin and a minecraft server on which I need to add, remove or download files quite often. I don't really want to use scp for everything, so I was wondering what everyone uses.

Edit: I'm looking for a gui solution, but a somewhat automated process of backups etc. is also nice

Edit 2: For anyone wondering what my final solution was: I am currently using a wireguard vpn on a raspberry pi to access my servers. I use Xpipe as a gui interface to transfer my files. I also just use tmux and ssh to execute commands and run services.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm now considering syncing my minecraft world with syncthing, I already use it for some things but don't know why I didn't think of doing that.

On the other hand, if I have a 100+ gb media library, it seems kinda over the top to also have it fully copied on my local machine. Do you do this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When it comes to media like my music library and comics for example I just use rsync to move new ones to the server every time I collect some new (I have about 60gb of it)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

so you basically have a copy of your media library on a local machine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, I only have new files on my local machine, and as I collect new stuff I move them to my server with rsync and just remove it onthe local machine.

Rsync is more than smart enough to, if you keep same folder structure to easilly move the files to the server without you having to manually copy other each file.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

sounds good, do you have any docs on how to do that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't really have some rn. Will make a page on my wiki and link it to you later with some basic examples.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Here is the link to the wiki page I created: rsync

The most important part for you is the last one, but I would recomend to read it whole to understand how rsync works a bit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Great! Thanks a lot, this will help