Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
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Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
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Re: Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
#2While SyncThjng might be encrypted, it’s yet another port or server that’s open.
We need ubiquitous private networks, such as wire guard, zerotier, or the buggy back-to-my-mac.
Re: Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
#3While SyncThjng might be encrypted, it’s yet another port or server that’s open. We need ubiquitous private networks, such as wire guard, zerotier, or the buggy back-to-my-mac.
You can always turn off NAT, LAN announcement, Relays and STUN -- and run SyncThing behind WireGuard. I use Tailscale and it works like a charm.
Re: Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
#4While SyncThjng might be encrypted, it’s yet another port or server that’s open. We need ubiquitous private networks, such as wire guard, zerotier, or the buggy back-to-my-mac.
I keep wanting Tailscale to offer a "tailnet API" whereby you can bundle a tailnet into your app, and users can connect to other instances of the app (whether their same account or other people sharing parts of their app/data) seamlessly: E2E encrypted, NAT busting, it just works.
Think about it: mobile and desktop apps no longer have to upload things to some third-party service to share with yourself or a group of people. You could set up your own server of course but that requires technical expertise. The mass market could share data, sync, and communicate, straight from their devices, without any service hosting their data. It's just all on the private network.
There's probably a billion-dollar market there (or more) if someone can figure that out for a lay audience: virtually unlimited, encrypted private networks on-demand that require no setup.
Re: Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
#5While SyncThjng might be encrypted, it’s yet another port or server that’s open. We need ubiquitous private networks, such as wire guard, zerotier, or the buggy back-to-my-mac.
Private networks are one part of the solution. Syncthing synchronizes, and for anyone who has ever tried it, it's not just two rsync's back and forth, whether ports are open or not
Re: Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
#6Syncthing is excellent. I’ve used it for years to keep my development folders synced between mac, linux and windows, and except for some initial figuring out of ignore patterns and the occasional hiccup with filenames that windows can’t handle it has been great at doing what it needs to and getting out of my way.
(I of course also use git, but syncthing lets me choose when I push while still having all my work on all my machines.)
Re: Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
#7Can I use it to backup SQLite? Like an alternative to Litestream? Are there any negative implications for doing this?
Re: Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
#8I use it and it works well, unfortunately there isn’t a free client for iOS though.
Re: Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
#9Can I use it to backup SQLite? Like an alternative to Litestream? Are there any negative implications for doing this?
Found relevant discussion here https://forum.syncthing.net/t/bahaviour-of-st-on-sqlite-file...
Re: Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
#10While SyncThjng might be encrypted, it’s yet another port or server that’s open. We need ubiquitous private networks, such as wire guard, zerotier, or the buggy back-to-my-mac.
You can always turn off NAT, LAN announcement, Relays and STUN -- and run SyncThing behind WireGuard. I use Tailscale and it works like a charm.
You can also run your own relay and only allow that if you want!