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Works quite well, with a few gotchas (ie make sure you don't sync cache files, session files etc).
Good software!
Syncthing is sorely missing iOS support. I know they have their reasons not to implement it[0], but I feel that feature might be worth the hassle. Photo sync on iOS without iCloud is a huge pain atm. My backup strategy involves a NAS folder that stays up to date (i.e. also deletes photos that I delete on my phone), and which I occasionally sort into final location. After that I can free the space on my phone. All oth…
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Oh boy can I ever. We used Resilio Sync (aka Bittorrent Sync aka BT Sync) for a while for the Tron project ( https://reddit.com/r/TronScript ). It worked great for our use-case: distributing a large number of files to a large number of nodes who required read-only access. Anytime I changed a file on the master node it would blast out to everyone else while simultaneously preventing any other node in the swarm from pr…
Do you have a reference to this 32 node cap for Resilio? I just tried doing a quick search and did not see any specific results showing this limit. Thanks.
Here's the thread in question: https://forum.resilio.com/topic/30525-please-please-please-p...
I had to stop using syncthing on my MacBook and MacBook Air because it was using far too much ram/cpu. I wish it could be made more efficient somehow.
It amazes me that Syncthing handles rapidly-changing files better for me than Dropbox. Where Dropbox has left different versions of files on different computers even after they have changed multiple times, Syncthing happily synchronizes them without issues. And the fact that Syncthing is open source and allows me to keep files on my own machines is a big plus. However, I would love to see a paid option for easy backu…
Just a heads up: that almost certainly means SyncThing is failing to recognize some classes of conflicts and concurrency races, and is destroying some changes. Doing this right is a hard problem. I know they can be a pain to deal with, but we don't spin out conflicts for no reason! Disclosure: I work on the Dropbox sync engine.
Sounds worth finding out in detail.
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Is it possible you look for something like Ceph? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceph_(software)
That seems to be focused on throughput. I'm focused on how much data I can store into the system and if it's redundant so long as N nodes don't die (and if they do I'd like it to attempt to reorganize the network so they system keeps working with N node failure).
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 somethin…
I have one suggestion for the authors. Make it clear on the front page exactly what Syncthing does. There's lots of information about Syncthing's qualities but if you don't already know what the software does, it's not obvious.
But the same suggestion could be made about almost any product with a web-site these days. Indeed Syncthing is doing much better than most; they have a box at the top of the page with a one-sentence explanation/plug.
I have one suggestion for the authors. Make it clear on the front page exactly what Syncthing does. There's lots of information about Syncthing's qualities but if you don't already know what the software does, it's not obvious.
Hear Ye! But the same suggestion could be made about almost any product with a web-site these days. Indeed Syncthing is doing much better than most; they have a box at the top of the page with a one-sentence explanation/plug.
similar to dropbox
many separate sync folders
many computers to many computers syncing.
Personal storage, no data in the cloud