Network Share

Arcuza

I have three Retropies. Would it be possible to use a network share for Config, Saves, Roms? I would accept a “synchronize” operation for rsyncing latest changes from a common source.

A network share cloud be a PC, a NAS, one of the Retropies, or a Raspberry PI running FreeNAS etc.

My primary issue is with saves, as they change all the time. Config and Roms would save some time initially.

Would it be possible to have a menu within Retropie for mounting a share and for synchronizing the latest changes?

I think reading from network every time might be to slow...

Thank you!

mitu

@arcuza said in Network Share:

I think reading from network every time might be to slow...

It depends on your network speed - wired would certainly be better then wireless - and the games/roms you have.
Take a look at Running ROMs from a Network share for some documentation regarding this.

Clyde

@arcuza Running roms via network shouldn't be that time-critical. Another thing are the image and video snaps that Emulation Station loads on the fly while browsing your game list. Those are better stored locally, but since they don't get changed that often, they shouldn't need to be synchronized every time you connect the network share(s) anyway.

Arcuza

Let's say I just want to sync/mirror the latest save states between a RPI0W and a RPI3B+, how can I accomplish that?

Install rsync on both devices?
Configure rsync to look in save state folders?
Run the rsync command from either device?

Thank you for your support

Clyde

Sorry for my late reply. Unison and rclone are programs to sync local or remote directories. Both are available in the official software repositories of Debian and thus, also in Retropie. Both can be used over an ssh connection, see Transferring ROMs how to enable ssh on Retropie.

You can install them easily with these commands:

sudo apt install unison
sudo apt install rclone