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

  • ianOP
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    11 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.