Unraid file sync automation

[Jcb93]

Like the tittle says I'm looking for a way to set unraid to automatically sync a folder or a drive from my PC to my unraid. I don't want to use something that needs a program running in the background on my PC. I used a plugging to mount network drives to unraid so I could have handbrake watch a folder on it. So I would like something that works the same way and watches for a new file then copy's that to unraid for a backup but I don't want it to delete the file if I do on the drive on my pc. I'm sure this is simple but I'm new and have no idea how to do so and other places I have asked just say stop being lazy and just manually copy the files.

Thank for any advice in advance!

[Jarsky]

Possibly you could create a share on your PC, and then use rsync and the user scripts plugin to sync it to your unraid. 

You could also just create a simple batch using robocopy, and then schedule it with task scheduler on your PC. 

 

Both would allow you to sync just the files that have changed. 

[Windows7ge]

Your computer would have to host a SMB share/folder that you give UnRAID permission to access. From there RSYNC could get it done.

 

Really though unless you're on a Domain with many many machines it's generally easier to just setup a program like FreeFileSync and a .bat file running in task scheduler on the client(s). This is usually how it's done in home setups. It'd be easier to setup and honestly makes more sense for the application.

[Net Runner]

As already mentioned above, you need to expose your files over SMB for UnRAID to be able to access these files and copy them over. After this one is done you can use any Linux-based tool that can grab the files from your SMB share and put them into a folder on UnRAID. Rsync, Freefilesync, Unison - dozens of solutions will do the job. Just run them at a regular manner and it will work. 

Unless you have a very special and specific case that requires such kind of approach I would rather stick to some sort of backup solution like RClone or Duplicati instead of regular file-based synchronization. This way you can keep some versioning of files which might be extremely helpful. Another option that backup software can provide is a cloud tier. Cloud storage can be very cheap or even free nowadays and having another copy somewhere else is a very good option because of multiple obvious reasons. Here is a nice overview of the mentioned solutions along with some others that hopefully might be of help https://www.vmwareblog.org/single-cloud-enough-secure-backups-5-cool-cross-cloud-solutions-consider/.