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I have a Centos 8 server and frequently have to download files to my Windows notebook, make changes to the files, and then upload them back to the server. I copy and paste the files to my backup directory to keep it in sync with my server.

Sometimes I don't download the files before changing them because I have an up-to-date copy on my backup. I change hundreds of files everyday and I am tired of the repetitive manual download, upload, copy, and paste operations.

What solutions are available on Windows and Centos 8 to help me keep these files in sync?

Note: Centos 8 is mounted with EXT4 filesystem

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A potential solution I can think of would be to mount the EXT4 file system to the Windows OS and then once mounted you could setup a script using Robocopy or some other sort or scripted logic to copy over the files that changed which you need to sync to the Linux EXT4 file system.

Similarly but from the Linux Centos 8 operating system side, you could mount an SMB shared folder defined on the Windows OS and then use Rsync or some other sort of scripted logic (or app) to copy over the files that changed which you need to sync to the Windows file system.

What method(s) and/or tools to use and what any correlated scripted logic may look like is really just a trivial matter but what you are trying to accomplish is most definitely possible from both sides.

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