I have a small Mele windows computer running NINA to control everything for imaging.   I have a more powerful desktop indoors to process the images.      Originaly, I set up NINA to download images to a Synology network drive and copied the files after an imaging session to my processing computer.   That slowed NINA down while capturing images and took a while to copy to my processing computer.

After searching a bit, I came across a lightweight open source program called Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/).   I'm running it on my Mele and processing computer and it syncs the image files in more or less real time between designated folders on each.    I have it syncing one-way from the Mele to the indoor computer.   It works across Mac, Linux and other OSes as well.

This way, I can monitor the images on my indoor computer easily as the night goes on and not have to do any copying at the end of a session.     It also provides a backup if I mess up during culling the images.   I occasionally clear out the Mele directory to free up space, but I have about 230GB on the D drive on the Mele, so I don't have to be too concerned all the time.   NOTE: I set "Ignore Deletes" in the advanced folder options on my indoor computer so the files on that computer aren't deleted when I delete them on the Mele

Anyway just thought I'd share this in case anyone was looking for something similar.

Rick
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