Comment on Syncthing alternatives
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I know this is unsolicited advice, so apologies for that, but did you consider that the issue could also be your server hard drive failing? I guess not a possibility if its really only recently synced pictures. Just wanted to throw that in.
Regarding backing up photos, Immich works well for that but is also a lot more than just photo backup, so maybe not a preference for you.
That is actually a good question, in this case the HDD is totally fine. Thing is, the photos only get corrupted very rarely (probably 1 every 3000 or so, and only sometimes) and often photos that got transfered several times to the phone (usually the problem is in the phone. On the desktop never had that)
As for immich, I do know about of but seems to be a bit much for what I need (and only photos AFAIK)
…could it be your phone’s storage is failing then?
Had a pixel 8, and now a new pixel 9a. I think the problem is actually a bit messy. On my house I have several access points. There is a chance when syncthing is working, and I am going up or down, phone changes the access point. Syncthing possibly gets a ’ oppsie, didn’t finish that! Let’s go for the next one’ kind of issue. Of course, never looked into logs or anything so this is just pure speculation.
Usually the kind of corruption on the photos is the kind that beginning is always there, but at some point gets replaced with gray, hence my theory about the files.
Yea, gotta be something odd with your setup.
Currently I have one phone (of several) thats syncing en excess of 10,000 files, some only on Wifi (with 3 access points), some wifi/cell data.
ST knows the state of a file, so a disconnect should have no effect. If you’re getting corrupted files, I wonder if something else is going on which may also affect another sync tool.
Try Resilio for the same folders, see if you have the se problem (disable aybthing of course, otherwise conflicting edits will cause file corruption).
Could be a bad AP.
I once had a switch with a failing power supply that would corrupt MP3 artwork. That was a weird one to track down.
DragonSidedD@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I’d echo this. Syncthing is widely used because it Just Works in so many weird situations. So if it is Not Working, swapping out Syncthing might actually make the problem harder to solve.