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I recently switched from Syncthing to Unison, after getting tired of Syncthing either taking forever to sync anything or getting stuck altogether, with very lit

by comex 7y ago

I recently switched from Syncthing to Unison, after getting tired of Syncthing either taking forever to sync anything or getting stuck altogether, with very little visibility or control over what it was doing. So far Unison (with fsmonitor) has ‘just worked’, with files updating immediately on save as I’d expect. (That said, one of the problems I encountered with Syncthing seemed to be that it wouldn’t properly reconnect when I switched networks, which is necessary since it runs as a persistent daemon. With Unison, so far I’ve been starting it up in the foreground in a terminal as needed, so it hasn’t had to provide the same functionality. But I expect I’ll eventually set up some type of auto-reconnect, which will hopefully work better than Syncthing did.)

StavrosK 7y ago
Huh, I've had the opposite experience with Syncthing. It's basically just worked, it's been bulletproof. I'm not sure why the disparity.
- jwr 7y ago
  Similarly here. Very happy with syncthing.
- exadeci 7y ago
  Syncthing can behave oddly, sometimes it works great and others it just starts looping and doing nothing. Of course I've not tried it in a while because of those issues so it could be fixed now.
bayindirh 7y ago
I also have a three computer setup with syncthing (one master, two slaves), and the thing was bulletproof around the world. When go to another country, open my laptop, connect to a wireless network and bam. Syncthing connects, things got synced automagically.