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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

You're right, there probably should be a GUI way to do this but the GUI is literally going to do exactly what you described as a 'magic spell'. All GUIs in Linux just run commands like the one above in the background. Everything starts out as a command and sometimes people make a GUI that run it. Naturally not every command has a GUI yet.

Framing this as a hack or magic spell is the wrong way to think about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

For what I use Linux for, Inkscape, Blender, web browser etc. do you think they send text commands from the GUI to another UI, the CLI? Sounds like an inefficient, legacy irrelevance to the user.

Remember this a usability issue, so for non IT users, incoherent text strings or commands are indeed magic spells. Any inappropriate UI is bad usability. They have put a lot of effort into usability on Plasma. So it's quite a shame that they got this so wrong.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@ian
I still don't get how this is a plasma issue. It's more of a "linux mindset" issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I just meant that, as a Plasma user, there is a missing function. And backing up is quite important too.

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