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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
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Not my own LAN but I sha4e data using google drive
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sftp, rsync, and copy/paste folders in Ubuntuās GUI.
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For occasional use ā¦ sftp or ftp
If I need cross-machine data often ā¦ NFS mounts.
To share between multibooted linuxes in one computer ā¦ mount a shared data partition in each linux
To have a VM access hostās data partition ā¦ sftp or nfs or sshfs
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I use TrueNASā¦ Dedicated server - low power microserver (HP N40L)ā¦ dual core AMD Turion CPU and 16 GB of ECC RAMā¦ ~12 TB of useable space across 4 x 4 TB HDDsā¦ Started off as FreeNAS - upgraded (in place) to TrueNAS 13ā¦ 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)ā¦
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 systemā¦
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)ā¦
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 ā¦ and some of my config files are on there tooā¦ 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 chainsā¦
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To be honest I use a terabyte USB drive that I plug into which ever laptop I need the files.
I was happy with Linux Mint but got trapped by the built in share folder rabbit hole. It just doesnāt work. One needs to set up SMB per other methods.
Distro hopped and found KDE akonadi kept seizing the system while it worked on something. Still hopping distros and desktops. Had NTFS for a while. Now Iām too scattered and need to rebuild.
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Learn to use NFS. It will handle any linux file sharing.
The usb solution for laptops is a reasonable way to do it. NFS is likd that, but instead of moving the usb you export a filesystem over your LAN.
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Not exactly ātrueā - you export a mount point (not a filesystem) over your LANā¦ The client doesnāt care what the filesystem on the remote server host isā¦ e.g. My Linux machines mount an NFS share from my NAS - itās ZFS on the NAS - but the client machines donāt care - or knowā¦
One thing I liked about ZFS - is - it natively supports sharing automaticallyā¦ Iāve done it before on Solaris - shared a zpool over NFS and thatās part of the ZFS config or somethingā¦ Donāt remember the exact details - it was a few years agoā¦
However - having said the above - re ZFS natively supports sharing over NFS (I believe it can do SMB as well) - I donāt use that feature on TrueNAS - I let TrueNAS share NFS the traditional way :
ā x@baphomet ī° ~ ī° uname -a
FreeBSD baphomet.local 12.2-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p14 325282c09a5(HEAD) TRUENAS amd64
x@baphomet ī° ~ ī° cat /etc/exports
V4: / -sec=sys
/mnt/BARGEARSE -alldirs -network 10.0.0.0/14
Note: that file can be edited by root - but - thereās no point - on bootup TrueNAS will overwrite that file with the db stored configā¦
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Trueā¦ because NFS has its own filesystem that it presents to the client.
I have used NFS to allow Linux to read a UFS filesystem belonging to BSD.
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This is an interesting question.
We (my family and me) use more sharing technics.
Mostly the Seafile approach, just put a file into a shared volume, which is synced across multiple computers - the file just appears (after syncronization) on the other computers as a local file.
Similar thing happens via the webdav extension of Seafile and Foldersync on Android.
For ad-hoc, single file transfers -mainly between a computer and a mobile- Warpinator is great.
Samba is also used, itās simply practical for sharing common folders between computers on the LAN.
I use sshfs between my home server and the vps, buth that doesnāt really fit into the LAN category now.
MiniDLNA server is running on my home server, it seesm to be the easiest way to provide content for the āsmartā TV.
I use NFS exclusively between my home server and the backup server.
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Iāve share across multiple architectures - e.g. DG-UX to SCO-UNIX, from IRIX to DG-UX - back and forth - BSD to UNIX systemsā¦
Itās near bulletproofā¦ the awsomest thing about it is the UID and GIDā¦
If you can figure out how to match user āXā from a Silicon Graphix IRIX system to the same UID (and GID) on Data General UNIX - youāre laughingā¦ NetApp were amazing at this stuffā¦
Unfortunately for MacOS they insist on first user having UID 501 - whereas most Linux systems (and TrueNAS) will start mapping users at UID 1000ā¦
I get nearly the same experience with Resilio Syncā¦
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When was DG UNIX? I didnāt think they were still around by the time UNIX was availble.
At my first job, we had a DG minicomputer for a few days until we realized that multitasking wasnāt the same as multiuser and returned it. It was one of those that still had the 16 switches on the panel for entering bootstraps, etc. in binary.
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Way before my timeā¦ But DG were kinda ābigā in UNIXā¦ They worked with Silicon Graphics on NUMA (non uniform memory access) - dunno what SGI did with that (I did work with IRIX) but DG ported it to x86 - so you could have a rack full of DG AViiON x86 computers - accessing the same memory banks in another rack unitā¦ Iāve no idea how that worked - it kinda predated stuff like infiniband and fibre (which was still way too slow for memory access anyway).
But Data General didnāt like the whole āmulti userā UNIX philosophy thoughā¦ How bizarre! UNIX evolved from MULTICSā¦
I only ever worked on AViiON systems - both Motorola 88010 and x86 (i.e. predating x84_64).
They did some impressive shitā¦
Shit the book āSoul of a New Machineā can be read even if youāre not a tech head or geek - itās just a damn good read! That books about DG trying to implement a completely new architecture and itās a great read..
My reference to their ambivalence to āmulti userā was when I ported a bunch of apps from a previous āgenā DG-UX system (4000x series?) on a previous āgenā architectureā¦ Me and the chief tester proved everything worked hunky dory - the binaries, the Progress DB (not "PostGreSQL!) - flawless..
Cutover day? Let user 3 into the system? WTF? This version of DG-UX is locked down to 2 simultaneous users! So much for multi-user! What happened to the MULTICS part of UNIX?
3 hours of phone calls to previous encumbents (Data General were Zero use - they were already in receivership and trying to sell their CLARiiON storage to EMC) - we got the license key and we now had 128 simultaneous user access!
Despite all that - DG-UX was kinda niceā¦ Easier to use than Solaris - but not quite as easy as AIXā¦ In some ways - all of them were easier to use as a sysadm - than Linux (Slackware)ā¦
Tracy Kidder : The Soul of a New Machine :
Itās a damn good read if youāre into non-fiction - and could read by the technically illiterateā¦ Iād compare it to another great non-fiction work about ātechā: the Scottish mates who did the first Grand Theft Auto gameā¦
You donāt need to be an IT boffin, or a keen gamer - to enjoy eitherā¦
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I am not an IT person but I really enjoyed this book. I even gave a copy as a present to a friend. Great story, impressive bunch of people doing amazing things in shortest time to get their new computer designed, prototyped, tested, finished and out to customers. Even a bit of mystery when they loose a memory addressā¦ must read it again !
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Big thanks to all for your replies
I have the time tight ā¦ I will read carefully your answers soon as I can
Thanks for your understanding
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