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Lots of good advice here.

The best place to start would be to ignore what you currently have, for the moment, and think about your requirements, at a high level.

In the corporate world, we start with Business/User Requirements - think “what does a user need to be able to do”, these are pretty abstract things like:

Have all photos accessible on mobile

Have all photos accesible by App A

Have all photos accesible by App B

Etc

Then take all those User requirements as a guide to the Functional/System/Technical requirements (what solution meets which requirement?)

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hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Thanks. I should try making my requirements clearer. I’m curious, is there a reason you use Resilio despite it being proprietary over other solutions?

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- BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Selective Sync is the one feature that Resilio provides that I use.
  
  It enables me to grab any file, using any device, at any time, from anywhere, over any network, simply and quickly. I really wish Syncthing had this capability. Oh well.
  
  So if I’m traveling, I can download a movie from my library with my phone or iPad while connected to hotel wifi. The Resilio UI is simpler than turning on Tailscale, launching a file explorer connecting to my server, then copying. Plus it’s a robust sync job - I don’t have to think about it, if the network goes away, Resilio will pick up the sync again when it can. On my mobile devices, Resilio is only run if started by the user, but Syncthing runs all the time to ensure stuff like photos, downloaded files, Backups, etc, are sync’d to my server.
  
  I switched from Resilio to Syncthing for everything else (mobile devices mostly, since I can use other tools on laptops), because it’s much lighter to run. Resilio is hell on mobile devices if you have a large library, as it keeps the index in memory, while Syncthing uses a file-based approach for indexes. Resilio is also resource intensive on my server - again because of the large media library.
  
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