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Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by Daegalus » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 6:40 AM UTC

deaddabe wrote: post #21

I have switched from Nextcloud to Syncthing. The former was a resource hog that was eating up too much everything on my modest VPS. I share the files on my local network at home between phone, laptop and desktop. My only issues so far: - I need to manually start Syncthing on the devices, whereas Nextcloud was always running on boot. Not sure if I should start it every time, especially on the Android phone which canno…

try out Synctrayzor for the laptop and desktop. it lets you set it to auto start on boot.

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by Fiahil » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 6:43 AM UTC

vegai_ wrote: post #16

KennyBlanken wrote: post #5

Syncthing works brilliantly! The web UI is excellent, warns you when you're about to do something ill-advised, and stuff like QR codes makes adding clients and folders fairly easy. The separation between folders and devices is handled well. You can easily have half a dozen shared folders between several computers with any mix-and-match combination including which one is 'authoritative' and so on. I used to use it on…

>The biggest bummer is that there's no iOS client. https://www.mobiussync.com/

Not available in my region, sadly

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by Daegalus » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 6:51 AM UTC

I use this for syncing game files (like MMO extensions, ui files. WTF folder when I used to play WoW or the FFXIV folder in my documents) and my code workspace folder between 4 devices, one being a homelab server.

For the game files it's just my gaming laptop and gaming desktop

I setup a connection for the folder from every device to every other device. Syncthing has a unique ID for the share, so they all share the same ID for that folder and it does all the work syncing. none of my project files are ever out of date on any device. Lets me sit down on any device and just work. (Desktop, windows laptop, Linux laptop, or ssh into server)

Another great thing is is you set it up in WSL2, it just works, and all it has to do is be on a different port. Lets me sync my workspace files into there and get full Linux filesystem file watching ( the \\wsl$\ path doesn't work well from windows side)

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by andrewshadura » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 6:51 AM UTC

sneak wrote: post #30

Syncthing is great, but bear in mind in the default configuration (unless you set STNOUPGRADE=1) it will automatically download a replacement binary and exec it, granting the developer remote code execution on your machine at any time, Solarwinds-style. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27933308 No-interaction autoupdate really should be opt-in. It's super dangerous software otherwise. Anyone with release credenti…

Not on Debian though.

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by sneak » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 6:53 AM UTC

andrewshadura wrote: post #34

sneak wrote: post #30

Syncthing is great, but bear in mind in the default configuration (unless you set STNOUPGRADE=1) it will automatically download a replacement binary and exec it, granting the developer remote code execution on your machine at any time, Solarwinds-style. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27933308 No-interaction autoupdate really should be opt-in. It's super dangerous software otherwise. Anyone with release credenti…

Not on Debian though.

...if you install via apt. Binaries downloaded from the website still have this issue.

PS: Thank you Debian maintainers.

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by pacifika » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 6:53 AM UTC

It refused a few files with unusual characters in their file name, so you’ll want to periodically check the logs, as it is stricter than the host OS. Apart from that, all good

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by snvzz » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 6:55 AM UTC

Not a fan[0].

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210226183330/https://www.gkaya...

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by fretn » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 6:57 AM UTC

pacifika wrote: post #36

It refused a few files with unusual characters in their file name, so you’ll want to periodically check the logs, as it is stricter than the host OS. Apart from that, all good

Do you happen to have a list of these unusual characters ?

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by KennyBlanken » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 6:57 AM UTC

vegai_ wrote: post #16

KennyBlanken wrote: post #5

Syncthing works brilliantly! The web UI is excellent, warns you when you're about to do something ill-advised, and stuff like QR codes makes adding clients and folders fairly easy. The separation between folders and devices is handled well. You can easily have half a dozen shared folders between several computers with any mix-and-match combination including which one is 'authoritative' and so on. I used to use it on…

>The biggest bummer is that there's no iOS client. https://www.mobiussync.com/

Okay, I guess I should qualify that and say that there's no iOS client that is actually practical to use.

NextCloud integrates into iOS's Files app pretty tightly as a 'storage provider' or whatever Apple calls it. End result is that my password database is magically up-to-date whenever I go to use it in my password manager, probably because Files sees an app trying to access the file, pings NextCloud to say "yo, is this shit up to date?", and then my password manager opens the file. I don't have to worry myself about background sync and such.

I didn't have to do jack shit to open the database the first time; the built-in iOS file-picker that came up let me select nextcloud as a source, and then my password database. Done. It is two taps to get that database open now - one to hit "passwords" in the keyboard area, and the second is me TouchID'ing to unlock the database.

Looking over the Mobius faq, it appears to be vastly inferior, with no guarantee your files are synced at any point in time, and you have to manually push files from Mobius to Files, and then access them in apps from there:

> iOS apps cannot access each others’ files. This means you will need to copy files in and out of Syncthing using the Apple Files app.

I wouldn't do that even if the software was free. And they want me to pay for that? No?

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by KennyBlanken » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 6:59 AM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #22

vegai_ wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The biggest bummer is that there's no iOS client. https://www.mobiussync.com/

Second this. Works flawlessly, is rather cheap, and the developers encourage donations to the main SyncThing project.

How is "you have to manually copy files around every time you want to use them" "works flawlessly"? Have you not seen how stuff is supposed to work with cloud storage providers in iOS? Because it's indistinguishable in function from local on-device storage.