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I've used Syncthing to sync between Mac, Linux and Android. They have a Windows client. It's not the most intuitive software to set up, especially on mobile w
by Symbiote 5y ago
I've used Syncthing to sync between Mac, Linux and Android. They have a Windows client.
It's not the most intuitive software to set up, especially on mobile where there are confusing filesystem restrictions from the OS, but once set up seems to work nicely.
I don't use the versioning / read-only features, so I don't know how well it performs for sort-of-backup purposes.
- stavros 5y agoSyncthing has worked for years for me without a single hitch.
- karmakaze 5y agoThis looks interesting, but I was interested in each computer doing a sync with cloud storage. I realize that's not well-defined, but even keeping the more recently updated version in any sync session is ok with me. The thing I wanted is that I only use one computer at a time and don't leave the others on so doing direct pc <-> mac sync is less convenient, compared to run a sync on whichever machine I'm using at the time. Should I just be getting some cloud VM that backs up its storage and use rsync/ssh?
- Symbiote 5y agoIf there's always at least one computer switched on (which be a rented VM, or even a phone if that's enough storage) then Syncthing could work. I haven't tried making many edits from different places with lots of time offline though — mostly, I use it to sync photos I take on my phone to my computers and vice-versa for DSLR pictures, and music etc from the computers to my phone. Files generally sync within a few seconds. rclone is the cloud equivalent of rsync, it syncs to S3, GCS etc. But you'd have to set up the "latest version" part yourself (--update?) and something to make the synchronization happen after changes (inotify on Linux?).