How do you sync desktop to your mobile phone (android)

[tonytony]

can anyone tell me how to sync my files on desktop to my android device?

i can setup ftp server on android if that helps

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

hello,

some rcloners, including myself, use run rclone on https://termux.com/
some rcloners root their device and use GitHub - Magisk-Modules-Repo/com.piyushgarg.rclone

[tonytony]

do i really need rclone on my android to do this?

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

if you want to use rclone to sync to ftp, the first step is to create and then test a ftp remote documented at
https://rclone.org/ftp/

the problem with ftp is that it does not support the following features and rclone ftp support has lots of issues.

• file transfer verification using checksum
• modtime
• sometimes not even encryption.
  as documented at https://rclone.org/overview/#features

on android, i use servers ultimate pro, which can run as ftp, or much better sftp.

another option, rclone can emulate a sftp server, with encryption and checksum support.
as documented at https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve
so on android, i could run rclone serve sftp and have the desktop sync to that.