Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
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Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
#2only if I can filter what to sync locally
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#3GitHub repo: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing
Some previous discussions:
* "Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7734114 (7 years ago|184 comments)
* "Syncthing is everything I used to love about computers" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537243 (1 year ago|159 comments)
* "Syncthing: Syncing All the Things" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27929194 (3 months ago|172 comments)
Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
#4only if I can filter what to sync locally
Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
#5Syncthing 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 Android to keep my 'camera roll' synced to my desktop. I preferred setting the ignore file to exclude android's thumbnails directory, but otherwise it worked great. I'd take a photo with my phone and almost before I could open the shortcut on the desktop, boom, the photo was there, since the android client detects changes in the filesystem.
I also used it to sync my password database, and a cross-platform notebook app's database. Worked flawlessly for all of them.
Ditto for a folder shared between my MacOS laptop and Windows desktop.
Lots of controls, especially in the forked android client. Don't want the sync client to run on any network other than your home network? Done. Don't want your syncthing clients to try and do NAT transversal / discovery outside whatever network it's on? No problem.
The biggest bummer is that there's no iOS client. Had to switch to Nextcloud, which so far has been working OK, but the number of people that have problems with the iOS client is quite high (problems such as syncs being so slow it takes days to sync a camera roll), and it's generally sluggish and doesn't work in the background (yes, I know, Apple's fault.) However, Nextcloud does allow me to sync contacts and calendars (I think. I haven't tried to set it up yet.)
One warning: Sycnthing really does not like it when you delete the dotfile folder inside the shared folder(s). Don't do that :)
Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
#6only if I can filter what to sync locally
Yes you can.
Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
#7I could never get this to work on my home network. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#8Is there an obvious way to use this with rclone?
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#9It's sufficient enough for my needs. I use Joplin with it as well as no-frills file syncing across my home network. Just a note on revision history: it's better to configure this feature on the notetaking app alone while disabling it on Syncthing.
My only gripe is that this utility may soon become deprecated as Android continues to update their convoluted storage schemes.
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#10Syncthing has been working for me flawlessly over the last year. Very impressed by it, especially compared to Dropbox, which is a CPU hog and has become a nagging salesperson on my computer.
Highly recommended.