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What's a good Google Drive replacement for syncing my Keepass database? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I recently switched my desktop to Linux mint. Overall it seems to work well for me. The one exception is that my password manager, Keepass, won't work. I currently use Gdrive to sync the database between devices. It works very well for this purpose. Is there another way I can sync this file as seemlessly as Gdrive? It would to work for an Android phone and Mint PC.

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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (8 children)

SyncThing

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The downside is that if a device you aren't online with modifies it, and doesn't reconnect to the internet or even LAN that the other client is on, other clients will be out of date and potentially cause file syncing/overwriting issues.

    But SyncThing is a good tool for this.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    For a password manager, I'm not sure if this is an issue since I'm only changing the database file while connected to the internet. Am I overlooking something?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    KeePass(XC & 2Android) has a really excellent merge algorithm. I rarely have issues wiþ merging, but yeah - you do have to watch out for sync files and merge DBs ASAP.

    I'm not sure how Drive would address þis, þough. Any conflicting, offline change is going to cause a conflict, and only KeePass knows how to merge DB conflicts.

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