Syncthing: the excellent sync tool
Syncthing
There is very many sync tools around, but most have this thing about using a server
to sync the things between different devices, which means that either you need to
have a machine that can act as the server, or you need to trust somebody else
with your data.
If you have a computer not being utilized very much this would probably be fine,
but then again you could probably find a better use for this machine than serving as
a file server essentially.
The technological solution to this problem is to use syncthing, the serverless sync tool
just set it up on the machines you need to sync set the desired folders and do the sync.
There is a reasonable amount of things you can configure syncthing to do, I use this to
sync several files between my phone and my computer, keeping stuff up to date without
having to use cloud apps.
Things syncthing does not do.
Syncthing will not sync your tools over the internet it is a requirement
that they are on the same network, so if you aren't getting to your computer regularly
it might be the right solution for you.
But as far as I can see that is the only downside, if you consider it a downside.
Features
Syncthing will give you a lot of parameters to configure it in the webui, the fact
that it is a webui is not a big deal there is still plenty of nobs to turn and it works very well
there might be other uis but I tend to not really use them very much.
If you have a file that will change very much and you want it to update the file rather than
do nothing, you need to set some sort of version control in syncthing, at least that is what I had to
do with my calendar, but that was easy to do so no problem about that.
In fact I find syncthing to be a excellent tool for sync'ing different devices for commonly used files.
Leave Syncthing: the excellent sync tool to:
Read more #linux posts
Best Posts From iobates
We have not curated any of iobates's posts yet. But you can encourage our curation team to review posts by visiting them regularly and by referring other readers. Because we give priority to frequently read content.
More Posts From iobates
- Bitcoin vs CBDC
- A quick Tactic from a game.
- Ads making a site useless
- Having Started my fitness training I was a bit sore for a few days.
- Carnivore diet 27 August 2024
- Carnivore 26 August
- Hiring practice at IBM will destroy the company.
- Carnivore 25 august
- Carnivore 24th August 2024
- Carnivore 23 August 2024
- Carnivore diary for 22nd of August 2024. Some benefits from the diet as well.
- Carnivore Diary 21st Aug
- Carnivore Diary 20th of August 2024
- A gem from a blindfold game
- Chess problem, from a game
- Tracking pill use, a simple CLI tool
- update to the unpacker, delete the archives when unpacking completes; it works but I think it has a few bugs.
- AI: Hype-train, is it finally over ?
- A Small Program to extract Archives
- Blindfold game analysis