File Synch across the network <SOLVED>

[lsemmens]

I had a package some time back that allowed me to synch files and folders across my home network but cannot, for the life of me either find it, or remember what it was. So, the question is,

What do you folk use. Drag and drop is not an option as one folder contains several thousand images of which only one or two are added removed or changed on occasion. There are other folders that change frequently but I do not want to do this manually every time.

[HaveaMint]

I use grsync.

[lsemmens]

Good idea! Tried it with the following error

rsync: ERROR: cannot stat destination "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=server.local,share=data/Documents/Access": Permission denied (13)
rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at main.c(653) [Receiver=3.1.2]
Rsync process exit status: 3

The Source is "/home/leigh/Documents/Stamps" the destination is "smb://server.local/data/Documents/Access/Stamps"

[lsemmens]

Surely someone has a suggestion. I'd have thought that syncing files across a home network was a fairly common occurrence.

[Mage of Maple]

First use Nemo (or whatever) to go to the destination - make sure "smb://server.local/data/Documents/Access/Stamps" is in your address bar and try to create a file. Make sure you have write access.

If that works, does the mirror work with rsync?

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rsync -avhuW --progress /home/leigh/Documents/Stamps/ smb://server.local/data/Documents/Access/Stamps

Add a --delete if you want files that are no longer at the source location to be removed from the destination.

[lsemmens]

Thanks MageOfMaple: looks promising but I get the following

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leigh@leigh-HP-Lappie:~$ rsync -avhuW --progress --delete /home/leigh/Documents/Stamps/ smb://server.local/data/Documents/Access/Stamps
ssh: Could not resolve hostname smb: Name or service not known
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(235) [sender=3.1.2]

and, yes, I do have it mounted and can navigate it in Nemo. There was a GUI package that I found in Software manager in my early days, but, for the life of me cannot find it now.

[lsemmens]

Thanks MageOfMaple: looks promising but I get the following

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leigh@leigh-HP-Lappie:~$ rsync -avhuW --progress --delete /home/leigh/Documents/Stamps/ smb://server.local/data/Documents/Access/Stamps
ssh: Could not resolve hostname smb: Name or service not known
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(235) [sender=3.1.2]

and, yes, I do have it mounted and can navigate it in Nemo. There was a GUI package that I found in Software manager in my early days, but, for the life of me cannot find it now.

Found that gRsync would work if I deselected the option to run as Superuser. Go figure.