Automatically reconnect sshfs
Posted: 2020-06-10 Filed under: system | Tags: reconnect, ssh, sshfs, thunar Leave a commentI’ve been using sshfs to mount a remote folder between computers in my home networks. Sometimes I switch from WiFi to wired connection or the other way around. This causes Thunar to freeze, if I had forgotten to unmount the remote folder. Which I almost always forget to do and it becomes quite annoying.
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Backup with rsync
Posted: 2018-03-24 Filed under: system | Tags: backup, rsync, ssh Leave a commentI decided to finally get into the habit of backing up my home folder regularly. Till now, I just copied everything to an external hard drive every couple of weeks, which isn’t the smartest way. Therefore, I wanted to do things in a somewhat ‘smarter’ manner.
Sure, I knew about rsync but I had never used it…
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Mount a remote folder by sshfs
Posted: 2016-03-04 Filed under: desktop, network, system | Tags: fusermount, mount, ssfs, ssh 1 CommentI have several computers at home, all behind a router. Sometimes, I need to access files between computers and so far I have always used ssh either in the terminal or by gftp.
However, I wanted to be able to mount certain folder remotely in a seamless way, as if it was on the computer I was currently using. This can easily be done by sshfs. It is not part of Slackware, but can be found at SBo: sshfs-fuse.
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