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Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by bedros »

XorNot wrote: post #24
dragly wrote: post #2

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…

Does syncthing have a backup option? Last I recall it didn't, which kind of soured me on it - in an ideal world every sync operation would be prefaced with "send a backup to one of my backup endpoints first".

check out borg backup, it's my favorite backup tool

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by pedrocr »

Nutomic wrote: post #82
pedrocr wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always ran official builds, my NAS are just standard x86 servers. Last time I checked was January 2015: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/468#issuecomme... Since that bug was closed with no solution I'm not too hopeful but maybe I should try it again.

If you can reproduce the issue, be sure to post on the forum so we can figure out the cause.

See the bug report at the time. It was closed without being fixed and it was 100% reproducible. Maybe it's fixed now but no one was too worried about it then and I saw similar reports on the forums for a while before I lost interest. I should either try syncthing again or finally test infinit completely. This is the last piece of the puzzle I'm missing to have a fully workable personal data management solution that allows me to bring up a completely new laptop with my full config and data with just a clean Ubuntu install and a few commands.

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by Inflatablewoman »

alphabettsy wrote: post #98
gravypod wrote: post #38

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…

Would Minio work for you? Distributed S3 clone.. check minio.io

That does not do empty folders, sadly.

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by ferongr »

Hopefully some day an implementation in something other than Go will emerge. The current Go implementation is mind-numbingly slow and uses huge amounts of memory.

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by ptman »

bedros wrote: post #101
XorNot wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does syncthing have a backup option? Last I recall it didn't, which kind of soured me on it - in an ideal world every sync operation would be prefaced with "send a backup to one of my backup endpoints first".

check out borg backup, it's my favorite backup tool

https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by ohnoesjmr »

microtonal wrote: post #31
okket wrote: post #15

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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…

Yeah, the only problem is you can never "un-give" a key, which means you either have to rebuild your cluster under a different key (having to re-give key to everyone else apart from that one guy you want to kick out), or deal with the person having access to the data forever.

Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by [deleted] »

meonkeys wrote: post #14
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…

I think the "introducer" feature is supposed to simplify this process, but I don't understand it.

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Re: Syncthing Usage Data

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Post by [deleted] »

okket wrote: post #17
meonkeys wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the "introducer" feature is supposed to simplify this process, but I don't understand it.

Once you established a connection to the 'introducer', it will introduce your device to all other devices it knows and vice versa. You still need to authorise these introductions on the devices, but no typing/copying of crypto strings.

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