I’m not super familiar with Syncthing, but judging by the name I’d say Syncthing is not at all meant for backups.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I use syncthing.
Is rsync better?
Syncthing works pretty well for me and my stable of Ubuntu, pi, Mac, and Windows
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 day ago
conartistpanda@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Syncthing is technically to synchronize data across different devices in real time (which I do with my phone), but I also use it to transfer data weekly via wi-fi to my old 2013 laptop with a 500GB HDD and Linux Mint (I only boot it to transfer data, and even then I pause the transfers to this device when its done transferring stuff) so I can have larger data backups that wouldn’t fit in my phone, since LocalSend is unreliable for large amounts of data while Synchting can resume the transfer if anything goes wrong. On top of that Syncthing also works in Windows and Android out of the box.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
its for a different purpose. I wouldn’t use syncthing the way I use rsync
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Different tools for different use cases IMO.
But neither do backups.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I dunno.
I am using it to keep a real time copy of documents on an offsite server.
Feels like a backup to me.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
What happens if you accidentally overwrite something important in a document and save it though? If there’s no incremental versioning you can’t recover from that.