One advantage of Syncthing over smbsync is it can use any network connection, not just LAN.
You can configure to only use LAN, or even specific LANs if needed (identified by SSID). I have a few sync jobs that work this way.
Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go?
KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’m currently doing phone backups to a samba smb server with an app called smbsync2 from fdroid. It can copy or move files and dorectories from and to a smb share on a schedule.
To get the archiving functionality you can do automatic ZFS snapshots. You can restore the entire snapshot or mount it via the terminal, or samba apparenly has a feature to display files from snapshots as shadow copies on windows.
There is one limitation of this is, if a client deletes a file on the local storage, the file on the server doesn’t get deleted automaticly.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I second smbsync2 for phone backup. It’s very customizable and once setup, just works.
I also use syncthing but only for syncing files I want to be the same on all devices. FreeTube watch history and subscriptions, stuff like that.