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Syncthing – A decentralized continuous file synchronization program
- indispuesto 2y ago100% recommended.
- joemazerino 2y agoI use syncthing often and find it incredibly useful. Thanks for the work!
- davidcollantes 2y agoDoes Syncyhing uses a third party relay, or coordinator server?
- fippi 2y agoBy default, syncthing uses public relays, but thankfully that can be disabled
- aquatica 2y agoIt's important to say that data cannot be decrypted by the relay
- RunningDroid 2y agoOne reason to use your own relay/discosrv (if anyone wants one) is that some of the public relays/discosrvs are also hosting Tor nodes, so Ubiquity's routers will tell their Admin you're using Tor.
- Technetium 2y agohttps://docs.syncthing.net/users/relaying.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/relaying.html + https://docs.syncthing.net/users/strelaysrv.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/strelaysrv.html
- xyse53 2y agosyncthing seems pretty solid to me and I've used it a little, but... There's pushback on the killer feature that I want. I want to be able to sync photos from my phone and clear them automatically so I don't run out of room. I've been told there are ways to do this but they all feel brittle. Syncthing should be in a position to do this safely. E.g., I have 3 destinations and set a policy that photos can be cleared from my phone when they've reached 2/3.
- opengears 2y agoThis is easy with Syncthing. Just create a bindirectional sync and move away the data with cron.
- xyse53 2y agoThat doesn't provide a guarantee that a file is on multiple replicas before deletion from the phone.
- opengears 2y agoYou could use Syncthing just to empty the incoming files from your phone (ingest) and then move the photos via cron to a second folder (also Syncthing) which is just shared with the replicas. Another approach would be to push the files from Syncthing to borg (borgmatic can do replicas) https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ https://torsion.org/borgmatic/
- ErikBjare 2y agoI import files from Syncthing folders into a git-annex on my NAS, where multiple copies are eventually guaranteed via sync to off-site mirrors (remotes).
- em-bee 2y agoi don't believe that will work reliably. cron risks moving a file that is not complete or a race condition where the complete file is moved away before synching verified that it is complete causing it to transfer it again. this can be avoided by only moving files that are a few minutes old but issues like this just make the process more brittle. i want to use a tool that is reliable, not hack together a custom solution. if i did that, why even bother with syncthing?
- jocoda 2y agoGreat tool but has its quirks. Be careful doing cross platform syncing. What's a legal filename on macos/linux may not be legal on Windows (e.g. "?" in a filename) If something slips through it's probably easier just to scrub the broken sync config and start again.
- suramya_tomar 2y agoThat's a good point. I use Linux where file names are Case Sensitive and the sync to Windows has problems when the files are copied over to an NTFS partition or to my Android phone. However, the rest of the files are updated even though some files have issues syncing. There is no alert etc generated just a message in the interface that sync is not complete.
- d4db0 2y agoI use it to sync my Obsidian Vault over my different devices and it's perfect. No need of the paying sync solution...