I’m looking for a way in Plasma to backup and sync my data from PC to a LAN Samba share on my NAS, using a GUI program.

The many sync apps (Grsync, Unison, Lucky, RealTime, Kup etc.) I’ve tried over many years, don’t let me set a remote/samba target. Most navigate locally only. I would mount the share, but nobody I’ve found knows of a GUI way to permanently mount it.

Everything else I need on Plasma has a GUI solution. Just a sync fails. I’d be grateful to hear of a GUI solution

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    10 months ago

    Yes I tried the RcloneBrowser. But there is no way to create a new Sync in the GUI. Only manage already configured ones. Unless it’s well hidden.

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      10 months ago

      @ian
      Yes, but doing it in terminal doesn’t require any obscure commands, it will guide you through and ask questions for everything

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        10 months ago

        The terminal is obscure in itself. I’m not sure how to start it or what commands to use.

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            10 months ago

            Oh thats what that was. It looked like an error message. So I tried it. Horrible UX, and it did not have samba. I tried a few of the alternatives and it didn’t manage to connect.

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              @ian
              Ah, I think it spawns xterm by default, which looks bad. And it has smb, does not have it for you?
              (It’s option 44 for me)

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                10 months ago

                Thanks I founf CIFS/smb on 35. It connected. Now trying to find out how to use the remote.