Connections

Drives, shares, the cloud, and the machines under them.

The sidebar lists the machines your folders live on, with their drives and shares underneath, and one dot each that tells you whether they are ready.

This Mac Ready

The built-in disk and every external drive: USB, Thunderbolt, NVMe, SD card. Each card says which, because a folder on a drive that can be unplugged is worth knowing about before you mirror onto it.

SMB shares Ready

Any NAS, Mac or Windows PC. Passwords live in the Keychain. Shares mount when a run needs them, and the app can ask a server what it shares.

OneDrive Ready

Signed in with Microsoft's own page, so the app never sees your password. Only what changed is fetched, large files upload in resumable pieces, and file names are checked before they are sent.

Synology DSM Coming

Talking to a Synology directly, with two-factor codes and recycle bins, is next. Until then a Synology works well over SMB.

Machines

A NAS that sleeps is not a problem.

Add a share and its machine is added with it. Give that machine its hardware address and any workflow that needs it can wake it first.

Amber means asleep, not broken. A sidebar that shows red every night is one nobody reads on the night it matters.
Per-machine patience. How long to wait for it to answer, and how long after that before its shares are used.
Scan the network for machines you want to wake before you put a share on them.

The sidebar listing MacBook Pro with Macintosh HD and Travel SSD, Atlas with its Backups and Media shares, Harbour asleep with its Offsite share, and OneDrive under Cloud.

The map

Is anything only in one building?

Tell the app which town each machine is in. The map draws your routes between places and lists, worst first, every folder with no finished copy outside its place.

A map of Spain and Portugal with a card for Madrid listing MacBook Pro and Atlas, a card for Lisbon listing Harbour asleep, green routes from Madrid to Lisbon and to OneDrive, and a panel saying every folder has a finished copy in another place.

Two places, three machines and a cloud account, all invented for this page.

Command line

Everything the app does, from Terminal.

trasgu runs the same engine and the same workflows. Analyze is read-only, so it is safe to point at anything to see what a sync would do.

$ trasgu analyze ~/Photos /Volumes/Travel\ SSD/Photos
Photos on MacBook Pro → Photos on Travel SSD · backup · name + size + date
  → 1,204 files to copy     38.2 GB
  ! 1 conflict             08 Garden/Birthday edit.psd
  = 40,383 identical        rolled up
Nothing was written.

$ trasgu devices wake Harbour
Harbour answered after 1 min 12 s.