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Sync to Samba Share via GUI [ unsolved ] (feddit.uk)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ian@feddit.uk to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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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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[–] panda@pandas.social 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@ian

> That sounds like a lot of IT skills are needed for that. I’ve never seen or used a script. Nor have my kids. Telling non IT users to do that is going to scare people back to Windows.

You might be surprised, but you could have both learned scripting and already have a working solution in the time you spent replying to this thread.

Windows is a good solution to people who don't care how something works.

> I’m scared of wasting my time.
Learning something useful is never a waste of time

[–] ian@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

already have a working solution

The solution, as I posted at the start, is to do it with a GUI. So a script could never have helped.
Solving this and sharing it, will also help everyone who uses a GUI. Not just me.
Also, you might also be forgetting that I would have a whole lot more to learn as a non IT user. So a script would be a massive investment. And I will have forgotten it all again if I ever need to do another one in the future. I think that is unlikely. So a lot of effort for a one-off. Also I'd need to have the script in the App launcher. Even if that is possible, it's yet more to legacy crap to learn.

Learning something useful is never a waste of time

Sure. I will happily spend my time learning useful stuff. I don't want to waste time using bad UX because something is broken in a strange domain. I want to discover and share a good solution.

If you are not in to usability that's OK. But this is a usability issue. A different world from yours. Software is there to help people. Never change the user to help the software.