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The recently release 1.16.1 supports the first beta of untrusted nodes, aka nodes that will sync data but don't know what it is, as it is encrypted with a passp
by Multicomp 5y ago
The recently release 1.16.1 supports the first beta of untrusted nodes, aka nodes that will sync data but don't know what it is, as it is encrypted with a passphrase you set.
so drop off an old machine at your parents / buddies / exs house, give it internet connection and cron some updates + reboots + power on after an outage and boom, if your house and all your devices burn down, you can get your files via decrypting with that password you saved to your email / password manager.
I love Syncthing and it's replaced Dropbox and Microsoft 365 for me. ok i keep the latter for online dictation when I'm not near a pc with dragon installed on it, but still, I don't need to trust MS with my data in their cloud.
- pokive 5y ago> give it internet connection and cron some updates + reboots + power on after an outage and boom wtf does this even mean?
- kuroguro 5y agoThey finally released it? Been waiting for this! Gonna hook it up to one of my VPSes.
- Bilal_io 5y agoEx's house? I'll go do that.
- remram 5y agoReminder that sync is not backup. If you delete a file, all your other copies will happily delete it too, giving you no way to recover.
- elcritch 5y agoIIRC, sync thing has an option for a “trash folder” where deleted files after syncing can go. It’s not quite full backup, but it also lets you recover files for some period of time. Edit: actually it’s the .stversions that I was thinking of. Deleted versions can go there.
- HomeDeLaPot 5y agoI think it's also possible to tell Syncthing to sync file adds/updates but not deletes. I wouldn't trust it 100% with my files, though, probably still a good idea to manually take regular backups to an external hard drive or something.