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Uncommon Syncthing usecases (self.selfhosted)

submitted 11 months ago by mypasswordis1234 to c/selfhosted

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What are you non-obvious, maybe strange usecases of Syncthing?

For example syncing the media library with your friend or maybe your entire /home/user folder between your PC and laptop?

I'd love to hear your ideas!

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[–] mypasswordis1234 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] wittless 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] wittless 2 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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