saving files on the network

[Shlomo Solomon]

I though of using some tool, but since I'm dealing with one directory,
it seems like overkill and one line of rsync should solve the problem,
although I'll probably add a few lines of "sanity" checks and logging
:-) 

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:49:43 +0200
Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:

> In that  case use tools like SyncThing, which let you have a sync
> folder across several computers.
> and all the syncing is done in the background (almost live).
> 
> --
> Rabin
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 09:37, Shlomo Solomon
> <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:05:59 +0200
> > borissh1983 at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > file locks that are so needed for binary files), or just to work
> > > locally and then overwrite the original file. Multi connection
> > > edits over the network is a guarantee for a headache later.
> >
> > Thanks. Although not really a "solution", I'm thinking of copying
> > the entire content of the share to my machine (disk space is cheap)
> > and creating, saving, changing, deleting files on my local copy. I
> > would then have a cron job to rsync to the share once an hour. So
> > effectively, the share would actually be a backup and rather than
> > actually working on the share.
> >
> > To be clear, the reason for the share is to allow family members to
> > save on the network share which is regularly backed-up since I know
> > my wife and kids never back-up their computers.
> >
> >
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