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1<!doctype html><html lang=en-us><meta charset=utf-8><meta name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"><link href="data:image/x-icon;base64,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" rel=icon type=image/x-icon><title>Using Digitalocean Spaces to sync between computers</title><meta name=description content="I&amp;#39;ve been using Dropbox for probably 10+ yearsnow and I-ve became so used to it that it runs in the background that I don&amp;#39;teven imagine a world without it."><link rel=alternate type=application/rss+xml title="Mitja Felicijan's posts" href=https://mitjafelicijan.com/index.xml><link rel=alternate type=application/rss+xml title="Mitja Felicijan's notes" href=https://mitjafelicijan.com/notes.xml><style>body{padding:1rem;max-width:760px;background:#fff;font-family:times new roman,Times,serif;line-height:1.35rem}hr{margin-block-start:1.5rem}h1,h2,h3{line-height:initial}footer{margin-block-start:3rem}table{max-width:100%;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:2px;border:1px solid #000;border-left:1px solid #999;border-top:1px solid #999}blockquote{font-style:italic}table thead{background:#eee}td,th{border:1px solid #000;padding:4px;border-right:1px solid #999;border-bottom:1px solid #999;text-align:left}pre{text-wrap:nowrap;overflow-x:auto;margin-block-start:1.5rem;margin-block-end:1.5rem;padding:.5rem 0;border-top:1px solid #000;border-bottom:1px solid #000}pre code{line-height:1.3em}pre,code,pre *,code *{font-family:monospace;font-size:initial!important}img,video,audio{max-width:100%}header{display:flex;flex-direction:row;gap:3rem}nav{display:flex;gap:.75rem}.pstatus-orange{background:gold}.pstatus-green{background:#9acd32}.pstatus-red{background:#cd5c5c}@media only screen and (max-width:600px){header{flex-direction:column;gap:1rem}a{word-wrap:break-word}}</style><header><nav class=main><a href=/>Home</a>
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6<a href=/index.xml target=_blank>RSS</a></nav></header><main><div><h1>Using Digitalocean Spaces to sync between computers</h1><p>Sep 9, 2020<div><p>I've been using <a href=https://www.dropbox.com/>Dropbox</a> for probably <strong>10+ years</strong>
7now and I-ve became so used to it that it runs in the background that I don't
8even imagine a world without it. But it's not without problems.<p>At first I had problems with <code>.venv</code> environments for Python and the only
9solution for excluding synchronization for this folder was to manually exclude a
10specific folder which is not really scalable. FYI, my whole project folder is
11synced on <a href=https://www.dropbox.com/>Dropbox</a>. This of course introduced a lot
12of syncing of files and folders that are not needed or even break things on
13other machines. In the case of <strong>Python</strong>, I couldn't use that on my second
14machine. I needed to delete <code>.venv</code> folder and pip it again which synced files
15again to the main machine. This was very frustrating. <strong>Nodejs</strong> handles this
16much nicer and I can just run the scripts without deleting <code>node_modules</code> again
17and reinstalling. However, <code>node_modules</code> is a beast of its own. It creates so
18many files that OS has a problem counting them when you check the folder
19contents for size.<p>I wanted something similar to Dropbox. I could without the instant syncing but
20it would need to be fast and had the option for me to exclude folders like
21<code>node_modules, .venv, .git</code> and folders like that.<p>I went on a hunt for an alternative to <a href=https://www.dropbox.com/>Dropbox</a>
22and found:<ul><li><a href=https://tresorit.com/>Tresorit</a><li><a href=https://sync.com>Sync.com</a><li><a href=https://www.box.com/>Box</a></ul><p>You know, the usual list of suspects. I didn't include <a href=https://drive.google.com>Google
23drive</a> or <a href=https://onedrive.live.com/>One drive</a>
24since they are even more draconian than Dropbox.<blockquote><p>All this does not stem from me being paranoid but recently these companies
25have became more and more aggressive and they keep violating our privacy when
26they share our data with 3rd party services. It is getting out of control.</blockquote><p>So, my main problem was still there. No way of excluding a specific folder from
27syncing. And before we go into "<em>But you have git, isn't that enough?</em>", I must
28say, that many of the files (PDFs, spreadsheets, etc) I have in a <code>git</code> repo
29don't get pushed upstream to Git and I still want to have them synced across my
30computers.<p>I initially wanted to use <a href=https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync>rsync</a> but I would
31need to then have a remote VPS or transfer between my computers directly. I
32wanted a solution where all my files could be accessible to me without my
33machine.<blockquote><p><strong>WARNING: This solution will cost you money!</strong> DigitalOcean Spaces are $5 per
34month and there are some bandwidth limitations and if you go beyond that you get
35billed additionally.</blockquote><p>Then I remembered that I could use something like
36<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3>S3</a> since it has versioning and is
37fully managed. I didn't want to go down the AWS rabbit hole with this so I
38choose <a href=https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/>DigitalOcean Spaces</a>.<p>Then I needed a command-line tool to sync between source and target. I found
39this nice tool <a href=https://s3tools.org/s3cmd>s3cmd</a> and it is in the Ubuntu
40repositories.<pre tabindex=0 style=background-color:#fff><code><span style=display:flex><span>sudo apt install s3cmd
41</span></span></code></pre><p>After installation will I create a new Space bucket on DigitalOcean. Remember
42the zone you will choose because you will need it when you will configure
43<code>s3cmd</code>.<p>Then I visited <a href=https://cloud.digitalocean.com/account/api/tokens>Digitalocean Applications &
44API</a> and generated <strong>Spaces
45access keys</strong>. Save both key and secret somewhere safe because when you will
46leave the page secret will not be available anymore to you and you will need to
47re-generate it.<pre tabindex=0 style=background-color:#fff><code><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:green># enter your key and secret and correct endpoint</span>
48</span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:green># my endpoint is ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com because</span>
49</span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:green># I created my bucket in Amsterdam regiin</span>
50</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>s3cmd --configure
51</span></span></code></pre><p>After that I played around with options for <code>s3cmd</code> and got to the following
52command.<pre tabindex=0 style=background-color:#fff><code><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:green># I executed this command from my projects folder</span>
53</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>cd projects
54</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>s3cmd sync --delete-removed --exclude <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;node_modules/*&#39;</span> --exclude <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;.git/*&#39;</span> --exclude <span style=color:#a31515>&#39;.venv/*&#39;</span> ./ s3://my-bucket-name/projects/
55</span></span></code></pre><p>When syncing int he other direction you will need to change the order of the
56<code>SOURCE</code> and <code>TARGET</code> to <code>s3://my-bucket-name/projects/</code> and <code>./</code>.<blockquote><p>Be sure that all the paths have trailing slash so that sync knows that this
57are directories.</blockquote><p>I am planning to implement some sort of a <code>.ignore</code> file that will enable me to
58have a project-specific exclude options.<p>I am currently running this every hour as a cronjob which is perfectly fine for
59now when I am testing how this whole thing works and how it all will turn out.<p>I have also created a small Gnome extension which is still very unstable, but
60when/if this whole experiment pays of I will share on Github.</div></div></main><footer><hr><div><h3>Want to comment or have something to add?</h3>You can write me an email at
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