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Heh, I've done exactly what your parent describes on an entire directory with syncthing. It was my fault for misunderstanding how to add a new device, but that
by gibspaulding 4y ago
Heh, I've done exactly what your parent describes on an entire directory with syncthing. It was my fault for misunderstanding how to add a new device, but that catastrophic confusion has scared me away ever since.
- Filligree 4y agoHow did that happen? I've got ZFS snapshots as well, so I'm not overly worried, but I wasn't aware that was a failure mode.
- gibspaulding 4y agoIf I remember right, I was adding a new device and misread the dialog for which way to sync the files. I ended up setting it up so that an empty directory overrode a full one. It was pretty immediately obvious what I'd done, and I was able to recover from a backup, but that brief moment of panic after realizing what I'd done definitely got my attention! This definitely isn't a criticism of the SyncThing project, I just made a dumb error, but it is a lesson on not "testing in prod" or entrusting important data with a non-professional (such as myself).