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I'm searching for remote server file manager right now. I want to copy (and compare) large directories on same Linux server from my Macbook. Cannot find one so far.

Cockpit: "here is no graphical file manager, and we don't plan to add one." https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/11011

CuberDuck: "FTP and SFTP do not support a copy operation."

Is there a way with GUI?

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Syncthing if you want continuous sync. Rclone if you want periodic rsync-style copies. Both have web UIs, although they're definitely aimed at the power user and not novices. If they're non-technical users you probably want to setup a nextcloud or similar system so they get a more dropbox-like experience.

edit: reddit.com/r/selfhosted always has good threads on self-hosted web file managers too

To clarify, priority is browsing, copying and moving stuff on same remote server, not copying data between machines. Thanks, will try these anyway. Trying this too https://cloudcmd.io

Edit: Cloud Commander works, gives you two-pane webgui with a row of Fx buttons below. F5 copies files locally.

"lsyncd" is really good for efficient, continuous sync. If you have password-less, public-key SSH auth, lsyncd is a bless (using it for millions of files and folders and doing good)

Can you mount the remote server over SSHFS or NFS or SMB and do the work locally on a file manager of your choice with a remote filesystem?

Or, if that's not a good option, what about a installing a TUI remotely that you can use in the console like midnight commander?

Just some ideas. YMMV.

> TUI remotely that you can use in the console like midnight commander

This was it :)) Even mouse works in Terminal!

thanks for mentioning this. I looked up midnight commander and I think I'm gonna end up using it for a few things.

Not sure about your CyberDuck problem, though. You should check your ssh server settings. I always use CyberDuck over ssh/sftp with my linux server.

When browsing remote server, I select a file, menu Edit - Copy. Go to another place on remote server, Edit - Paste. It starts downloading file to my macbook for some reason.

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