I haven't even begun to dig in to everything it can do, but chezmoi is in the arch repo.
https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi
Fits the bill.
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I will have to give this a look! Thank you!
Man I’m sold by the support for templates. Will try.
syncthing works for me, both locally and on a vpn.
It’s never too late to learn how to use rsync instead of some third party software package.
This interests me. I may have to check this one out specifically for my configuration files. And I will definitely go the self hosting route if I do this. Thank you!
Use rsync
From my understanding, without having a VPN connection to my home network, or proper port forwarding (which sounds like a security nightmare to me) it would only function on my local network?
Imho, opening the SSH port exclusively to your computer isn't a bigger risk than setting up a VPN, if you use authentication by keyfiles ~~a certificate~~.
By cert you mean a ssh key pair correct? As in public and private keys.
Yes
That is fair. Just historically speaking, I have typically only had 1 port opened on my router for VPN access, and then setting up SSH cert auth from system to system.
Like Shrek, layers xD
Syncthing for everything.
Unison might be worth a look, provides bidirectional merging and command-line operation. It's what I'd use if I were mostly working with binary files and didn't want a history.
Rsync, which someone else recommended, is really aimed at efficient unidirectional replication, not keeping two directories on computers that are both being changed and are intermittently connected in sync.
config files
If there's mostly text and you're going to want to review changes, want to keep a history, and do a lot of merging, I'd use git, symlink files to aim at the git repo. I have a custom helper script, but stuff like GNU stow is aimed at this, and I'd probably recommend that someone look at it before rolling their own. Here's an example of someone using it with git in this role:
I agree with that guy about using bare git repos as the "master" copy, even if one of the machines in question also hosts the bare repos and technically you have some redundant information on it. Makes life easier, no machine is "special".
If I had both binary files (say, a music collection) that I wanted kept in sync without a history and text files that I do (say, my dotfiles), I'd use both.
Fantastic suggestions. Gives me some things to try. Thank you so much!
Not super popular, but i've been using Resilio Sync for years, it's from what used to be the Bittorrent Foundation.
The UI has all the features I need but is still simple and I've been using it for years and have never had to spend any time troubleshooting it post-install. I'm not sure what that gets you over syncthing though.
Back on windows I have used Resilio Sync. I don't hate it, does essentially what I am looking for, but I am trying to go more open source route. Thank you for the suggestion!