watchexec VS rclone

Hi, I am using Watchexec (https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec/releases) to monitor folder changes, but I want to exclude some folders. What parameter should I use to perform the route exclusions?

Use https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec

There's something similar to this called watchexec, which you can have a look at https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec

Or use watchexec which will do 95% of what you need and you're not tied to nodejs.

watchexec

I use watchexec to automatically run the code when saved, you should customise this to your liking.

OTOH PowerShell will not keep watching and is one of the requirements. In the past I've successfully used watchexecrepo and inotifywaitrepo.

I prefer watchexec as it's cross-platform.

Once that was done, I made a bucket (imaginatively named pvfm) and copied the data over with aws s3 sync. I probably could have gotten better performance out of rclone or s5cmd (or if I copied the data to my NAS with its 2.5 gigabit NIC), but I started it, went to sleep, and when I woke up it was done. When I looked back over the logs, I noticed that the main reason why it took so long was that a lot of the older files had many small files alongside of them (.cue sheets listing when each track started and stopped in the DJ set). Tigris handles many small files efficiently, but aws s3 sync didn't properly recycle HTTP connections so uploading a small file was way more costly than it probably should have been. Otherwise I was hitting the limits of the gigabit ethernet card in my shellbox. Sweet!

I don't know if it is a server or client in this context, but have you looked into using rclone?

https://rclone.org/

https://github.com/rclone/rclone

Dump PostgreSQL database, compress (gzip) and encrypt (gpg) it, and upload to one or more remote S3-compatible storage (rclone).

But, for anyone on a site literally called "Hacker News", a DIY dropbox should be trivial. The fact that anybody, especially, "nerds" or "hackers" would pay good money for what is effectively an FTP server with file versioning is insane.

I am mostly jealous that I didn't build and sell dropbox and become an overnight millionaire for setting up FTP.

But seriously, modern approach, rclone[1] + "cloud" stoage (webdav, ssh, wasabi, whatever)

[1] https://rclone.org/

Rclone - Cloud storage sync tool

The WebDAV server is Class 1 compliant (Basic), compatible with WebDAV clients like Cyberduck, rclone (GUI & CLI, available on macOS, Windows, and Linux), etc. This guide will use Cyberduck, but rclone works too.

Filed an issue to remove googlephotos from rclone since removeing the library.readonly scope will completely break that. https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8434

What a terrible decision by Google.

In case anyone is not aware, https://github.com/rclone/rclone written in Go is the established swiss army knife of cloud storage sync, and supports mounting on Windows with many caveats (https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/).

Congratulations on hitting the HN frontpage with your new project, mounting cloud storage locally is definitely a topic of interest!