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Whoa never heard of Syncthing (open source syncing to replace dropbox). What led you to choose that?

• marcuskaz 8y ago
  I was using Bittorrent Sync for awhile but the product got buggy, renamed, and seems like going through weird times. So looked for an open source alternative and found Syncthing. It works well to keep files in sync between laptop and desktop, its all local - but you give up any cloud storage if all your computers go fubar.
  • anderspitman 8y ago
    It definitely takes extra work to protect yourseld against data loss using syncthing over something like Dropbox. I have a mirrored ZFS (FreeNAS vm) which I back up to a usb HD and Backblaze (600GB is running me about 3USD/month)
    • theptrk 8y ago
      How do you set up the mirrored ZFS? Is this running some type of job that runs something like rsync on a schedule?
      • anderspitman 8y ago
        In my case it all depends on having the FreeNAS up and running. Once that's working, it's pretty easy to configure it with a couple drives to have them mirror each other. I'm actually running FreeNAS in a VM, but I'm passing through the PCIE SATA controller so FreeNAS has complete control over the hardware, which is important for ZFS. My machine also has ECC memory, which the FreeNAS folks claim is pretty much a must. Hard to determine how true that is. I've seen some conflicting opinions.
• anderspitman 8y ago
  It always brings me sincere joy to see another person discover syncthing. One of my all-time favorite pieces of software.