What approach do you use to share data in your LAN?

General Discussion
1

Hello Friends

If you need to share data (.tar.gz) many times throughout the week in your own LAN what approach do you use and why?

  • FTP
  • Samba
  • SSH

If you know other approach pls, let me know

1 Like
2

Not my own LAN but I sha4e data using google drive

3

sftp, rsync, and copy/paste folders in Ubuntu’s GUI.

1 Like
4

For occasional use … sftp or ftp
If I need cross-machine data often … NFS mounts.
To share between multibooted linuxes in one computer … mount a shared data partition in each linux
To have a VM access host’s data partition … sftp or nfs or sshfs

1 Like
5

I use TrueNAS… Dedicated server - low power microserver (HP N40L)… dual core AMD Turion CPU and 16 GB of ECC RAM… ~12 TB of useable space across 4 x 4 TB HDDs… Started off as FreeNAS - upgraded (in place) to TrueNAS 13… Basically the same setup since late 2019 - so coming on for 7 years now (only change since then was replacing 8 GB [2 x 4] DDR3 RAM with 16 GB ECC DDR3 [2x8])

I mostly use NFS - but also have the same data shared as multiple SMB shares (Mac defaults to SMB, so does iPad)…

I also have SMB shares on a Raspberry Pi4 - pretty much just for MacOS TimeMachine backups (it has 2 x 6 TB USB 3 HDDs mounted) - I also backup my server machines (a Pi3, that Pi4 itself, and an x86_64 Debian 13 that streams using JellyFin to either of those 6 TB drives).

All the actual content on the JellyFin server is stored on the TrueNAS system…

I only use FTP (to my TrueNAS) to access scanned documents from my Brother MFC (it saves to an FTP share on TrueNAS) - I used to use Google Chrome to access that scanned document share - but Google disabled FTP client - so I just use my file manager on Ubuntu (Nautilus)…

I also use ResilioSync to sync certain folders between computers (Mac, iPad, Linux, Android, FreeBSD [TrueNAS]) - e.g. on my Ubuntu desktop $HOME/Documents is actually a symlink to $HOME/ResilioSync/bigshit/Documents - same for pictures, same for $HOME/bin … and some of my config files are on there too… e.g. my $HOME/.ssh/config file has an include that points to a file shared across all the other peers on my ResilioSync sync chains…

3 Likes