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Re: Syncthing Usage Data

#31

Post by microtonal »

okket wrote: post #15
fiatjaf wrote: post #10

Since no one is complaining: I find Syncthing too complicated to set up. You must create a folder, then get a number for a computer (which you end up writing in a pastepad or something like that because the two computers don't communicate), then go to the other computer and place the number in, then do the same for the second computer to the first. Repeat it for 5 or 6 machines. If any machine is switched what do you…

This is the price you have to pay for a (secure) decentralised system, but syncthing tries to help where it can. E.g. you can set a syncthing instance as an 'introducer', so you only have to establish a connection to this device to get offered connections to all others devices. You still need to authorise these introductions on the devices, but you do not need to type in the crypto verification strings.

This is the price you have to pay for a (secure) decentralised system, but syncthing tries to help where it can.

In general, Resilio Sync's 'key per folder' model seems to work better. I can give a key to other people and they can join the swarm without extra work on either sides. Also, it has a logical extension to encrypted-only peers: they get a derived key that can be used to sync in the swarm, but cannot decrypt the data.

If there was a stable open source program using Resilio Sync's sharing model, I would switch in a heartbeat. (There is Librevault, but it still seems to be mostly in development.)

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by baldfat »

noja wrote: post #5
baldfat wrote: post #3

I would love to use Synchthing but Bit Torrent Sync, now known as Resilio Sync, works behind firewalls so much better. Hope to one day come back to syncthing.

Syncthing works fine behind and through firewalls. Which year did you last use it?

Last year. I am in different Public School networks and SyncThing still got caught. I worked for hours to figure it out and just couldn't :( Did they beef it up since last year?

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by pmontra »

fiatjaf wrote: post #10

Since no one is complaining: I find Syncthing too complicated to set up. You must create a folder, then get a number for a computer (which you end up writing in a pastepad or something like that because the two computers don't communicate), then go to the other computer and place the number in, then do the same for the second computer to the first. Repeat it for 5 or 6 machines. If any machine is switched what do you…

The mobile app can read a qrcode from the screen of the laptop/desktop. My setup is laptop, phone, tablet. Phone and tablet are master for their own pictures, screenshots, downloads, contacts. The laptop is master for everything else, keepassx included. I don't share anything over Google and Dropbox.

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

#34

Post by pedrocr »

Has anyone been able to sync large folders with syncthing? Last time I tried when syncing 500GB you'd end up using >500MB of memory which made it unusable for home NAS setups. Hopefully it has since improved?

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

#35

Post by problems »

Interesting that the mobile usage seems to be so low from this, I sync my desktop, NAS and phone using Syncthing constantly.

I also reject any sort of statistics though, so I'm probably not helping.

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by darrmit »

Syncthing is awesome. It is more difficult to setup than something like Dropbox (though, scanning QR codes is pretty easy IMO), but that has gotten exponentially better over the last year or so via the community and it seems to only be getting better.

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by noja »

baldfat wrote: post #32
noja wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Syncthing works fine behind and through firewalls. Which year did you last use it?

Last year. I am in different Public School networks and SyncThing still got caught. I worked for hours to figure it out and just couldn't :( Did they beef it up since last year?

There are public relays which you can use (automatically unless you disable the feature), so NATing and firewalls shouldn't be an issue.

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by gravypod »

Is there something like Syncthing that works like a RAID system? I'd like to use multiple computers in different locations and use them to backup and expand my storage size.

Basically redundant but distributed storage with N node fail tolerance. Preferably interfaceable via a "/mnt/cloud" directory so I can use it from my laptop and easily write backup scripts and store data into it.

If this existed I'd have something big to work on setting up next week.

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by swiley »

problems wrote: post #35

Interesting that the mobile usage seems to be so low from this, I sync my desktop, NAS and phone using Syncthing constantly. I also reject any sort of statistics though, so I'm probably not helping.

I've run both the mobile and desktop version on my phone and it just drains the battery way too fast. I ended up just using an rsync cron job to sync my phone over ssh while everything else uses syncthing (and yes, I know this means I can't delete anything but I very rarely do anyway.)

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by therealmarv »

I loved the concept and hated the battery consumption on Android devices. Well it works totally different than a normal cloud storage so there is nobody really to blame but I cannot afford that much battery on my small 5" phone. Also did not liked that dates are not correctly on Android (but again this is not Syncthing fault). Why we cannot have date correction on external storage (without root) like on desktop file systems on Android? :(
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