Ok, why syncthing and not rsync? Also, duplication should not be threated as backup.
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wittless@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have a site to site VPN between my house and my mother’s house. I keep a raspberry pi at her house with a 2TB drive running syncthing. My photo library and important documents sync to her house as an offsite backup in case my house ever burned to the ground.
mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 7 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
ST has stupid-simple clients for every OS. Rsync doesn’t (though it’s more capable in my opinion).
wittless@lemmy.world 7 months ago
because synching runs all the time. any change that I make is nearly immediately updated offsite. and if you think that is my only backup of my photos, you would be wrong :-) This is only a “if I lost all my physical possessions” type backup, not an “oops, I am a dummy and deleted something I shouldn’t have” backup. I have multiple snapshot backups and also run incremental backups every hour. Storage is so cheap any more that I don’t hesitate to have 5 backups of the REALLY important stuff. Most of my server storage is also raid5 in case of hardware failure. I have pushover set up to check for disk failures and push alerts to my phone if one is ever detected.
mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh, okay! thanks for the clarification. What are you using for incremental backups?
wittless@lemmy.world 7 months ago
my primary laptop is a Mac, but my main server is a proxmox host running many containers for various things. one is a samba server that holds my Time Machine backups.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It can be if the off-site duplicate has automatic snapshots.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’m currently building the same setup, the long-term goal being a Crashplan-type solution (back when they had a feature where you could backup to your friend’s devices).
Having a large family, there a many geographically distributed locations for us all to use.
As for OwnCloud, ST is far simpler to setup. Granted, it’s not nearly as flexible. I do use it to keep all our laptops and phones “backed up” to a desktop that runs Crashplan and Backblaze.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
The main purpose of Syncthing is syncing files between two or more computers and it does an excellent job of that.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 7 months ago
True, keeping a not-necessarily-synced repository of files is more own/nextcloud’s thing.
bastion@feddit.nl 7 months ago
This comes off as a sick burn.