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Post by eightys3v3n »

I would like to reflect on all the positive sentiments here. I have been using it for years and I rarely have to look at or think about it more than once every two months. Even when I do need to look at it, it's just to realize I filled some drive and that's why it's not synchronizing anymore.

I have no issues day-to-day and it's relatively easy to set up. I haven't played with the zero trust encrypted folder syncing yet but I will eventually :p

I'm running it on Linux and Android but I started out with it on Windows. Thanks for the reminder about this software. I don't think I've donated in a couple years now.

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Post by icelancer »

This system works extremely well unless you have a LOT of small files (like 200-400k or more). Then, unfortunately, it stalls/breaks in very weird ways.

We had to move on and go with more manual synchronization methods like using robocopy and so forth.

It's unfortunate given how awesome SyncThing + SyncTrazor works on Windows Servers. But I cannot recommend it highly enough if you don't have a system with a huge number of individual files - it works very well.

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Post by yownie »

bdjsiqoocwk wrote: post #10
kristjank wrote: post #3

SyncThing has been the only piece of open-source software which I've fire-and-forget installed and it's working indefinitely.

Seconding the sentiment <3

I've had the intention of testing it out for YEARS and finally got around to it last week or so. Really pleasantly surprised how well the NAT punching / relay servers handle keeping machines synced.

I wish I had tried it all those years ago. I wish excluding directories was a little more intuitive and there was a good way to administer config's on a machine not local to me. Maybe over SSH, I'm still learning.

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Post by soupbowl »

evanjrowley wrote: post #4

I had to stop using it after loads of conflict files piled up over the years in my notes folder. I'm trying to switch to WebDAV for notes. Considering Caddy+WebDAV[0] or Peergos[1] or SeaweedFS[2], but not Next/OwnCloud. Is still consider using Syncthing for other files types. [0] https://whhone.com/posts/webdav-syncthing/ [1] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3APeergos%2FPeergos%20webda... [2] https://github.com/seaw…

I had similar issues years ago and it was frustrating. What I do now is have syncthing on a 'server' that is always on and everything syncs to the server and not between each device. That reduced my conflicts by 99%. Another issue I had was accidentally deleting a folder and having it deleted off of all my devices.

To solve that issue I have my server do ZFS snapshots on my syncthing folder, which makes for easy recovery. With those 2 things being done, I can't say enough good things about syncthing. Compared to nextcloud it is almost maintenance free.

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Post by edarchis »

kristjank wrote: post #3

SyncThing has been the only piece of open-source software which I've fire-and-forget installed and it's working indefinitely.

I use it on so many platforms and even sometimes in three-way like my Obsidian vault that syncs between my laptop, my phone and my tablet. I barely ever had any conflict. Amazing software.

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Post by dang »

Related. Others?

Syncthing – A decentralized continuous file synchronization program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41281152 - Aug 2024 (23 comments)

Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35879039 - May 2023 (124 comments)

Syncthing Anywhere with Tailscale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32375662 - Aug 2022 (42 comments)

Syncthing Stats - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32012712 - July 2022 (4 comments)

Syncthing: The Data Deduplication Master - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31278867 - May 2022 (2 comments)

Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28859521 - Oct 2021 (230 comments)

Syncthing – continuous file synchronization program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28371802 - Aug 2021 (1 comment)

Syncthing: Syncing All the Things - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27929194 - July 2021 (172 comments)

Open Source Continuous File Synchronization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27149002 - May 2021 (146 comments)

Syncthing is everything I used to love about computers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537243 - June 2020 (159 comments)

Do not use Syncthing (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116462 - May 2020 (1 comment)

Emacs' Org-Mode and Syncthing = Perfect (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23058358 - May 2020 (77 comments)

Syncthing: An open source Dropbox replacement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20466469 - July 2019 (41 comments)

Syncthing graduation day - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18832517 - Jan 2019 (114 comments)

Syncthing Usage Data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13856552 - March 2017 (119 comments)

Syncthing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10331031 - Oct 2015 (1 comment)

BitTorrent backups – BTsync and Syncthing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207935 - Sept 2015 (1 comment)

Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7734114 - May 2014 (184 comments)

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Post by EGreg »

soupbowl wrote: post #24
evanjrowley wrote: post #4

I had to stop using it after loads of conflict files piled up over the years in my notes folder. I'm trying to switch to WebDAV for notes. Considering Caddy+WebDAV[0] or Peergos[1] or SeaweedFS[2], but not Next/OwnCloud. Is still consider using Syncthing for other files types. [0] https://whhone.com/posts/webdav-syncthing/ [1] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3APeergos%2FPeergos%20webda... [2] https://github.com/seaw…

I had similar issues years ago and it was frustrating. What I do now is have syncthing on a 'server' that is always on and everything syncs to the server and not between each device. That reduced my conflicts by 99%. Another issue I had was accidentally deleting a folder and having it deleted off of all my devices. To solve that issue I have my server do ZFS snapshots on my syncthing folder, which makes for easy reco…

Why not just use rsync -a periodically over an encrypted ssh connection? It works across Mac/Linux etc. and is just as efficient, no?

If you really want to be fancy, you can deploy a script to watch files for changes and do rsync immediately when it happene.

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Post by aborsy »

Syncthing is probably the best sync software on market right now in my view. I have had very positive experience with it.

I have an always on device that runs various applications including syncthing. Works great and sync is fast. Like send a movie from a computer to phone, and it gets there fast.

I have started to use encrypted folders (beta feature). If you have a VPS, this might be a useful feature for you.

I like that the transfers are peer to peer, and syncthing has been very secure so far.

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Post by naveen99 »

dang wrote: post #26

Related. Others? Syncthing – A decentralized continuous file synchronization program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41281152 - Aug 2024 (23 comments) Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35879039 - May 2023 (124 comments) Syncthing Anywhere with Tailscale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32375662 - Aug 2022 (42 comments) Syncthing Stats - https://ne…

https://hn.garglet.com/similar/stories/27929194

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Post by darkteflon »

Huge fan. Been using it for years with very few issues across Win10, MacOS, iOS, Ubuntu / PopOS, Steam Deck and even Quest 3. Fire and forget. Like Tailscale, don’t know what I’d do without it.
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