Hello selfhosted! Sometimes I have to transfer big files or a large amounts of small files in my homelab. I used rsync but specifying the IP address and the folders and everything is bit fiddly. I thought about writing a bash script but before I do that I wanted to ask you about your favourite way to achieve this. Maybe I am missing out on an awesome tool I wasn’t even thinking about.

  • drkt
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    2 days ago

    I just type sftp://[ip, domain or SSH alias] into my file manager and browse it as a regular folder

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        23 hours ago

        Linux is truly extensible and it is the part I both love and struggle to explain the most.
        I can sit at my desktop, developing code that physically resides on my server and interact with it from my laptop. This does not require any strange janky setup, it’s just SSH. It’s extensible.

        • @blackbrook@mander.xyz
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          20 hours ago

          I love this so much. When I first switched to Linux, being able to just list a bunch of server aliases along with the private key references in my .ssh/config made my life SO much easier then the redundantly maintained and hard to manage putty and winscp configurations in Windows.

      • drkt
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        82 days ago

        Any file manager on Linux supports this