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I've been using syncthing for more than 3 years, and it's been just amazing. It replaced dropbox for me completely, and provides a better experience in all aspe

I've been using syncthing for more than 3 years, and it's been just amazing. It replaced dropbox for me completely, and provides a better experience in all aspects - speed, stability, low power usage on mobile. One of the few projects I'm sponsoring on Github.

cowmix 5y ago
Ditto. Sometimes I get some CPU spikes but overall it has been amazing.
6ak74rfy 5y ago
Syncthing is more of a synchronization tool and less of a backup tool. For e.g., if I screwed up a file on one machine, that will automatically be replicated to other machines. Dropbox, on the other hand, "can" be used as a backup tool because I can go and recover an older version if I want. I do know that Syncthing has a way to keep older file versions around for awhile but I find that a bit cumbersome to use, especially during restore. So, I am curious to understand more on how you use Syncthing as a replacement to Dropbox. (I'd love to do the same but don't for reasons I wrote above.)
- js8 5y ago
  I don't see why should Syncthing be a complete replacement for Dropbox (Unix principles blah blah blah). It's probably not hard to set up a periodic backup (for example, Borg) on one of the replicated machines. At home, I replicate everything on my phone and netbook to a (bigger) desktop machine, so I could just add a periodic backup job there.
- Macha 5y ago
  Turn on staggered file versioning. If you need to go back to an older version, pick it in .stversions . If anything, this seems simpler than dropbox for me. Does Dropbox still make you use the web UI to restore old versions?
  - kuroguro 5y ago
    Yep, still have to use the web UI. Just switched to syncthing from dropbox a month ago, been awesome so far!
srijan4 5y ago
Ah, I never considered or used Dropbox as a backup tool, only for synchronization. Backup is separate. For simple undo operations (recover a recently deleted file), Syncthing's version history is good enough.

cowmix 5y ago

Ditto. Sometimes I get some CPU spikes but overall it has been amazing.

6ak74rfy 5y ago

Syncthing is more of a synchronization tool and less of a backup tool. For e.g., if I screwed up a file on one machine, that will automatically be replicated to other machines. Dropbox, on the other hand, "can" be used as a backup tool because I can go and recover an older version if I want. I do know that Syncthing has a way to keep older file versions around for awhile but I find that a bit cumbersome to use, especially during restore. So, I am curious to understand more on how you use Syncthing as a replacement to Dropbox. (I'd love to do the same but don't for reasons I wrote above.)

js8 5y ago
I don't see why should Syncthing be a complete replacement for Dropbox (Unix principles blah blah blah). It's probably not hard to set up a periodic backup (for example, Borg) on one of the replicated machines. At home, I replicate everything on my phone and netbook to a (bigger) desktop machine, so I could just add a periodic backup job there.
Macha 5y ago
Turn on staggered file versioning. If you need to go back to an older version, pick it in .stversions . If anything, this seems simpler than dropbox for me. Does Dropbox still make you use the web UI to restore old versions?
- kuroguro 5y ago
  Yep, still have to use the web UI. Just switched to syncthing from dropbox a month ago, been awesome so far!

srijan4 5y ago

Ah, I never considered or used Dropbox as a backup tool, only for synchronization. Backup is separate. For simple undo operations (recover a recently deleted file), Syncthing's version history is good enough.