I’m currently running kubuntu 23.10 and have been distro hopping a lot lately. I’m going to continue to do so but the tedium of saving everything off is a royal pain.
Backup solutions across distro’s don’t always work, plus the overhead of backing up and restoring is almost more work than just copy/pasting most stuff.
In windows obviously, you’re damn near forced to use one drive these days, and it made me wonder if there is a similar cloud service, or self hosted service that might accomplish a similar task.
I’ve got an unraid server I can use, and there are options there it appears, but the choices are almost overwhelming.
So I thought I’d just ask all of you, what solution mimics a cloud desktop like onedrive the closest?
EDIT: To be more specific, I’m mostly just referring to dekstop contents, Documents, Downloads etc, Not config data. Bonus points if I can add folders too.
EDIT2: Thank you everyone for your awesome suggestions! I went with syncthing. I also tried Mega which crashed pretty much instantly for some reason. Syncthing seems to be exactly what I need and I can just point it at my Unraid server.
I have had a mesh setup end up with one device throwing old files across the entire mesh and it took me an entire hour to fix and get replication working correctly again. So right now I have all devices connecting to my plex server only, no mesh. If a device updates, it goes to my server then propagates to my other devices.
This lets every device be able to update a file or pull back updates. Because the plex server is the sole adjudicator of changes, I dont have to deal with any file mismatches or keep a single source as read-only.
Ah, I get it, thanks :)
I tried doing it that way at first, but because my wife’s laptop is only used occasionally, I was getting the errors from that. At the moment the mesh is working for me.
Next week might be different though 🙈