Comment on Uncommon Syncthing usecases

wittless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  as far as syncing files between PC and laptop, I would think ownCloud would be better suited for that.

  The main purpose of Syncthing is syncing files between two or more computers and it does an excellent job of that.

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  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True, keeping a not-necessarily-synced repository of files is more own/nextcloud’s thing.

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    • bastion@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This comes off as a sick burn.

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• mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ok, why syncthing and not rsync? Also, duplication should not be threated as backup.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ST has stupid-simple clients for every OS. Rsync doesn’t (though it’s more capable in my opinion).

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  • wittless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, okay! thanks for the clarification. What are you using for incremental backups?

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      • wittless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It can be if the off-site duplicate has automatic snapshots.

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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