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Can you tell us what's your issue with scp? It'll help us make better recommendations.
I mostly want some sort of graphical way, I'm often moving a bunch of loose files and seeing them is a lot easier for me when transferring
IDK what OS you are on but on Linux most file managers have support for remote filesystems. SFTP (SSH-FTP, not to be confused with FTPS which is FTP-secure) is ubiquitous and if you use scp
then you already have SSH set up.
If you need Windows support it is more of a pain. You may need to set up Samba or WebDAV and permissions can suck. But you can also download a third-party file browser that supports remote protocols.
So basically SFTP, and I fairly regularly just use a graphical file manager when I am doing one-off operations.
I'm using debian, so sftp would be an option, do you use a graphical client?
NFS, SMB, and/or sshfs
- NFS for my media shares between servers (Emby, MPD, etc)
- SMB for accessing from workstations
- sshfs when I need a quick, one-off file session (or if I'm accessing remotely)
Sshfs is also a good candidate if for whatever reason you want security / encryption
I tend to use rsync 99% times.
Wouldn’t FileBrowser work? Idk if you’re on docker or not though
NFS comes to mind, naturally.
I remember some years ago scp had a big issue, can't recall what, though. But that made me have a look at rsync, and I've been using that ever since. Flags are a bit atteocious, but I've aliases rsync -avz status=progress
to copy
and it's been happy days. One other benefit - incremental copy. Helps in cases where a copy procedure had been stopped for whatever reason.
scp is one of the best options. You could also try sshfs if you want something more interactive.
I'm mostly looking for something graphical