software:filesync
What?
My notes for file syncing. Wishlist:
- should allow syncing of directories between linux systems and android
- should be completely own hosted, no dependency on google drive etc.
candidates
- unison
- pro: long time around
- pro: can work ontop of ssh
- syncthing
- pro: free
- con: opens an own listener
- con: does authentication and encryption by itself
- FolderSync
- approach: can sync via ssh/sftp to android
- setup: straightforward. Instead of password-auth, keyauth can be used. When keypairs are generated using “ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096” then they are accepted. A passphrase should be used to protect the private key.
- con: payware
- pro: uncomplicated to setup
- pro: works directly in both directions
- android-rsync
- approach: frontend for ssh/rsync binaries
- setup:
- had to extend sshd_config on server to “KexAlgorithms diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1”
- dsa private/pubkey get generated, pubkey gets used for authentication
- configured /storage/sdcard0/sync as syncdir
- looks like nice setup. For my usecase I created 2 profiles, one for sending and one for receiving. After fiddling a bit with pathes in both profiles, I can run both profiles and have the files synced.
- By default, also newer files on the remote site will be overwritten. To work around this, you have to add “-u” in both profiles to the rsync command which is used.
- pros:
- free
- uses established ssh/rsync protocols
- cons:
- takes a bit time to setup
- keyphrase for authentication can not be passphrase protected
- 2 profiles have to be run for the full sync
- syncing with additional systems required additional thinking (i.e. to keep the directory synced between 3 or more systems)
- owncloud
- cons: heavy for my usecase, PHP
software/filesync.txt · Last modified: 2022/08/03 13:16 by 127.0.0.1