sync to external drive

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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 08:38:52AM +0100, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I am looking for a gui program that syncs pc to an external drive, USB or
> card reader.  I have found three but all are rather complicated:
> 
> 
> unix.stackexchange.com/questions/66749/how-to-auto-sync-with-a-plugged-in-usb-mass-storage-device
> 
> In installed Syncthing and find it cumbersome-  for example to see what is
> going on you have to go to 127.0.0.1:8384  It does not seem to get easier
> after that.
> 
> Any suggestions?

The default backup manager in Ubuntu 17.10 will do this - It's front end to 
rsync. I use it to back up to external USB 2 Tb every early am. Works 
fantastic.