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Hmm, what if you use a special directory where you could move the files on your phone once you don't need them? And then the cron job would move stuff from that

Hmm, what if you use a special directory where you could move the files on your phone once you don't need them? And then the cron job would move stuff from that directory ah for rsync I meant with --remove-source-files flag -- it's just sometimes rsync is easier to use than move, depending on the hierarchy of your files

em-bee 5y ago
from the phone i want the files synced to the backup as soon as they are created. if i only sync those that i don't need then the once i do need never get synced. unles you mean to sync first, then move files i want to keep on the backup only out of the way and rsync --remove-source-files those files again. the problem with that is that when i do remove files on the phone, then it's because i need the space. at which point i don't want to wait. syncthing does what i want. that is not the problem. them problem is only that it is easy to forget to set up ignore-delete, and that it's hard to monitor the sync status of the backup from the phone. i appreciate the suggestions, but they don't really do much to help my case. what is really needed is an improvement of the syncthing UI and in particular a redesign of the way the status is handled. for my backup maybe i'll set up an rsync with hard-links to create a second version of all files which protects them from accidental deletion.