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For some reason I haven’t understood, syncthing would often miss transferring files but mark the entire transfer/sync as complete. No errors in the logs either.
by AnonHP 6y ago
For some reason I haven’t understood, syncthing would often miss transferring files but mark the entire transfer/sync as complete. No errors in the logs either. I tried it for a few months earlier this year, then gave up and switched to plain rsync in a shell. Based on that sample of one personal experience, I wouldn’t recommend syncthing to anyone.
Note: I was using syncthing for a one way sync all the time, with send-only and receive-only settings on the endpoints.
- JeremyNT 6y agoI've been using Syncthing extensively for years and never observed this behavior - it always either completes the transfer or fails to complete the transfer (which is obvious in the UI). A silent failure is certainly not typical. This sounds like a pretty severe bug, so if you still have the systems you were able to produce the behavior on it might be helpful to reproduce it and submit an issue.
- nonbirithm 6y agoYeah, I gave up an Syncthing when using it between my Android device and Linux server. Too many hours were lost trying to debug why the server no longer showed as connected on the phone. At some point I went back to emailing myself files, because that actually worked, and I realized that I didn't actually need an entire program with a synchronization algorithm to send a few large files on the occasion.