Sync between linux PCs with different usres not working

[dflvunoooooo]

Hi,

maybe I am to stupid or I do not understand properly how the backup or redirection process work. I try to sync saves between two linux PCs with to different users. I succeeded in so far, as I managed to transfer the saves from PC1 to PC2 via nextcloud. But, the restore on PC2 does not work. I suspect it is because the saves folder of ludusavi contains the user name of PC1s users in the form of /<ladasavifoldername>/<gamename>/drive-0/home/<username>/….

PC1 has user brian and the game is in /home/brian/Games/need-for-speed-underground-2/ which ludusavi saves to …/ludusavi-backup/Need for Speed_ Underground 2/drive-0/home/brian/Games/need-for-speed-underground-2/ where my username from PC1 is hardcoded. On PC2 is the user deck, the path to the game /home/deck/Games/need-for-speed-underground-2/. If I start a backup on PC2, it gets saved to …/ludusavi-backup/Need for Speed_ Underground 2/drive-0/home/deck/Games/need-for-speed-underground-2/. Again with the user name in it. How do I make ludusavi ignore those paths and save to a user indifferent path?

This has another problem, which I was able to solve with redirects. The actual saved games are in a deeper folder wich again contain the username, so that the absolute path contains the username twice. …/ludusavi-backup/Need for Speed_ Underground 2/drive-0/home/brian/Games/need-for-speed-underground-2/drive_c/users/brian/AppData/Local/NFS Underground 2/. I was able to change the name of the last username with redirects. But the problem is, that I can not exclude the /home/<username>/ part at the beginning and thus ludusive will not restore the saves which where synced from PC1.

Am I missing something or is it not possible?

[mtkennerly]

Hi! Redirects are generally the solution here, but:

The actual saved games are in a deeper folder wich again contain the username, so that the absolute path contains the username twice.

Unfortunately, redirects aren't able to support this currently. You can follow #310 for this. I'm not sure when I'll be able to work on it, but it's definitely something I'd like to add.