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<a href=/index.xml target=_blank>RSS</a></nav></header><main role=main><article itemtype=http://schema.org/Article><h1 itemtype=headline>Using Digitalocean Spaces to sync between computers</h1><p><cap>post</cap>, Sep 9, 2020 on <a href=https://mitjafelicijan.com>Mitja Felicijan's blog</a><div><p>I've been using <a href=https://www.dropbox.com/>Dropbox</a> for probably <strong>10+ years</strong>
now and I-ve became so used to it that it runs in the background that I don't
even 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
solution for excluding synchronization for this folder was to manually exclude a
specific folder which is not really scalable. FYI, my whole project folder is
synced on <a href=https://www.dropbox.com/>Dropbox</a>. This of course introduced a lot
of syncing of files and folders that are not needed or even break things on
other machines. In the case of <strong>Python</strong>, I couldn't use that on my second
machine. I needed to delete <code>.venv</code> folder and pip it again which synced files
again to the main machine. This was very frustrating. <strong>Nodejs</strong> handles this
much nicer and I can just run the scripts without deleting <code>node_modules</code> again
and reinstalling. However, <code>node_modules</code> is a beast of its own. It creates so
many files that OS has a problem counting them when you check the folder
contents for size.<p>I wanted something similar to Dropbox. I could without the instant syncing but
it would need to be fast and had the option for me to exclude folders like
<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>
and 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
drive</a> or <a href=https://onedrive.live.com/>One drive</a>
since they are even more draconian than Dropbox.<blockquote><p>All this does not stem from me being paranoid but recently these companies
have became more and more aggressive and they keep violating our privacy when
they 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
syncing. And before we go into "<em>But you have git, isn't that enough?</em>", I must
say, that many of the files (PDFs, spreadsheets, etc) I have in a <code>git</code> repo
don't get pushed upstream to Git and I still want to have them synced across my
computers.<p>I initially wanted to use <a href=https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync>rsync</a> but I would
need to then have a remote VPS or transfer between my computers directly. I
wanted a solution where all my files could be accessible to me without my
machine.<blockquote><p><strong>WARNING: This solution will cost you money!</strong> DigitalOcean Spaces are $5 per
month and there are some bandwidth limitations and if you go beyond that you get
billed additionally.</blockquote><p>Then I remembered that I could use something like
<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3>S3</a> since it has versioning and is
fully managed. I didn't want to go down the AWS rabbit hole with this so I
choose <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
this nice tool <a href=https://s3tools.org/s3cmd>s3cmd</a> and it is in the Ubuntu
repositories.<pre tabindex=0 style=background-color:#fff><code><span style=display:flex><span>sudo apt install s3cmd
</span></span></code></pre><p>After installation will I create a new Space bucket on DigitalOcean. Remember
the zone you will choose because you will need it when you will configure
<code>s3cmd</code>.<p>Then I visited <a href=https://cloud.digitalocean.com/account/api/tokens>Digitalocean Applications &
API</a> and generated <strong>Spaces
access keys</strong>. Save both key and secret somewhere safe because when you will
leave the page secret will not be available anymore to you and you will need to
re-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>
</span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:green># my endpoint is ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com because</span>
</span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:green># I created my bucket in Amsterdam regiin</span>
</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>s3cmd --configure
</span></span></code></pre><p>After that I played around with options for <code>s3cmd</code> and got to the following
command.<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>
</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>cd projects
</span></span><span style=display:flex><span>s3cmd sync --delete-removed --exclude <span style=color:#a31515>'node_modules/*'</span> --exclude <span style=color:#a31515>'.git/*'</span> --exclude <span style=color:#a31515>'.venv/*'</span> ./ s3://my-bucket-name/projects/
</span></span></code></pre><p>When syncing int he other direction you will need to change the order of the
<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
are directories.</blockquote><p>I am planning to implement some sort of a <code>.ignore</code> file that will enable me to
have a project-specific exclude options.<p>I am currently running this every hour as a cronjob which is perfectly fine for
now 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
when/if this whole experiment pays of I will share on Github.</div></article></main><section><hr><h2>Posts from blogs I follow around the net</h2><ul><li><a href=https://chotrin.org/writing/2023-10-20.html target=_blank rel=noopener>OpenBSD upgrade and fall things.</a><div>Been AFK for a bit. It's autumn and I upgraded this server to OpenBSD 7.4! — <a href=https://chotrin.org>chötrin's wiki.</a><li><a href=https://mirzapandzo.com/next-image-url-parameter-is-valid-but-upstream-response-is-invalid target=_blank rel=noopener>Next/Image "url" parameter is valid but upstream response is invalid</a><div>Getting "url" parameter is valid but upstream response is invalid error with Next/Image on WSL2 — <a href=https://mirzapandzo.com/>Mirza Pandzo's Blog</a><li><a href=https://drewdevault.com/2023/10/13/Going-off-script.html target=_blank rel=noopener>Going off-script</a><div>There is a phenomenon in society which I find quite bizarre. Upon our entry to
this mortal coil, we are endowed with self-awareness, agency, and free will.
Each of th… — <a href=https://drewdevault.com>Drew DeVault's blog</a><li><a href=https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/10/workshop-in-rotterdam-how-to-build-a-bike-generator/ target=_blank rel=noopener>Workshop in Rotterdam: How to Build a Bike Generator</a><div>Afbeelding: Low-tech Magazine workshop in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Poster: Marie Verdeil. Image: Sara Vercauteren
The workshop takes place on behalf of the “Hou… — <a href=https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/posts/>LOW←TECH MAGAZINE English</a><li><a href="http://offbeatpursuit.com:80/blog/?id=24" target=_blank rel=noopener>Printf debugging</a><div>tags:
plan9
There’s no shame in that. Yes, there is documentation, code to be
read, and debuggers to be used. But sometimes you just need to “see”
what is happening.
So… — <a href=http://offbeatpursuit.com:80/blog/>WLOG - blog</a><li><a href=https://neil.computer/notes/chart-of-accounts-for-startups-and-saas-companies/ target=_blank rel=noopener>Chart of Accounts for Startups and SaaS Companies</a><div>Accounting is fundamental to starting a business. You need to have a basic understanding of accounting principles and essential bookkeeping. I had to learn it. Ther… — <a href=https://neil.computer/>Neil Panchal</a><li><a href=https://journal.valeriansaliou.name/deploy-a-nomad-cluster-on-alpine-linux-with-vultr/ target=_blank rel=noopener>Deploy a Nomad Cluster on Alpine Linux with Vultr</a><div>After spending countless hours trying to understand how to deploy my apps on Kubernetes for the first time to host Mirage, an AI API service that I run, I ended up … — <a href=https://journal.valeriansaliou.name/>Valerian Saliou</a><li><a href=https://jcs.org/2023/10/17/wikipedia target=_blank rel=noopener>Wikipedia Reader 1.0 Released</a><div>Wikipedia Reader
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and THINK C 5 project file)
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