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I switched to Syncthing a while back and haven't looked back. It's self-hosted, so there are no storage limits, and if you care to put in the work (setup is a t

I switched to Syncthing a while back and haven't looked back. It's self-hosted, so there are no storage limits, and if you care to put in the work (setup is a tad more complex), it's also pretty easy to hook it up to a cloud server, which nets you an off-site backup. Syncthing doesn't quite have the "Just Works" factor that Dropbox's offering has, but I don't need that; the ability to synchronize several terrabytes of my personal archives (I have a lot of data) was more than worth the effort. https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/

freedomben 8y ago
I wouldn't recommend having syncthing be your only backup, at least for important files (like photos/videos of your kids). It was a couple years ago, but a syncthing bug was eating large files. Take this anecdotal report with a dash of salt. It didn't happen to me. Happened to a friend of mine. That said, I wouldn't make Google Drive or Dropbox your only backup either.
- m_eiman 8y ago
  More generally: sync is not backup. Backups need to have versioning (like Time Machine) or manual syncing (like rsync to external/remote drive).
pymai 8y ago
I'm thinking of switching to syncthing soon, but I would probably recommend resilio to less techy types since it seems like its slightly easier to use, especially if you are paying the subscription fee where you can have all your folders added on new computers