Syncthing - The Based Way to Sync Your Files 

@@mohammadiaawe are literally watching nerd shit

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​@@mohammadiaawere all nerds here anyway lol

@@mohammadiaa my brother in Christ this is a tech channel

@@greenspaceman531 yea haha

You have the option to have the client read in or write out only, set per each shared folder.

You also have the option to configure versioning, simplest is trash can versioning, thus you can recover files for a certain amount of time. Best is complex version management, so that it preserves older versions of your files for a certain amount of days.

@@_modiX can you do that with a phone to move your data to a new one?

@@fromtheotherside1980 It's not designed to sync app data, but I sync my personal files on multiple phones. Even iOS is supported, although it's limited to an isolated folder in such case. So it depends on your definition of data. You cannot use it to make a replica of your phone in terms of apps and settings.

@@_modiX i want to move the things that i have inside (photos, contacts)

>Started using it to sync my KeePassXC password database between pc I do that as well! Let me ask you a question, does the sync takes a while or is it just immediately, like in Kenny's video?

What kind of notetaking app do u use on ur tablet?

​@@sairos40571 hour to sync

raspberry pi always crush my file system

​@@realcartoongirlSkill issue

i feel stupied :( @@DonVigaDeFierro

how did you manage to power 4 HDDs through a raspberry pi?

@@ahmadshami5847 external power supply or a board that powers them

Same, love syncthing! Been using it for years, next to other things, also to back up my photos and data from my Android phone onto my Linux desktop and NAS, works great!

​@@binladen-ci7jmYou're not going to elaborate, are you

Listen mister @binladen-ci7jm, I don't understand what is that you find "completely unnecessary" in @DonnieX6 behavior.

It works great until it doesn't and you have to figure why do two devices do not connect to each other.

@@binladen-ci7jm Bug off glowie.

Also works great with Logseq.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get that working.

​​​​​@@joshua_lee732For any incoming P2P traffic to succeed, you need to setup port forwarding (or ask your ISP to set that up for you over the phone if you don't have access to your Internet-facing router's settings), and also setup your PC's firewall to allow it.

@@joshua_lee732 it should just work out of the box. Maybe there's something wrong with your particular router/firewall setup, but I cannot say for sure.

Can it encrypt traffic end to end?

​@@jchoneandonlyI just use it with tailscale. All the problems related to networking is just handled by tailscale.

​@@tkenbenplease elaborate, genuinely interested and I don't have the understanding you do

@@ultra568jinxdo not use git as a file storage solution.

@@ultra568jinx So, if you use git, you can version a folder and its subfolders, but you don't want to sync the git information which is almost always stored in a "hidden" dot folder (one starting with a period). Git information is usually tons of small files that will allow you to restore to any previous commit. So, I do both, I store commits with git and every once in a while I do a tarball that does not include the dot files. But what I sync is only the current data files, not the git files (dot files) or tarballs. This is probably overkill for most people.

@@tkenbenI’m also interested in what you mean.

​@@tkenbenhopping on the "please explain!" wagon here

You can set directories as send and receive or send only or receive only. I set my password manager database directory as send only on my desktop and receive only on my laptop so that the master database on the desktop can not be edited remotely

@@PaulG.xbut then you can't add new Entries while working on the laptop, right? mh.

HA HA HA SO FUNNY 😂 💀

@@realcartoongirl ?

Do you live in a dystopian future or something, literally nobody gives a single crap if you use the cloud or not, and they definitely wouldn't be surprised if told them you didn't use them.

crickets ​@@falciexd

how did it go?

Interesting, that seems a bit annoying though. Would much rather it ignore its artifacts.

Useless fact to blow your linux firends minds: The "hidden files feature" was originally a bug in ls. The reason stated above (annoying to see the . & .. and that the file count was always off by 2) was the reason ls was updated to hide the dot paths (back in like the 80:ies). This introduced the bug where you could change the name to start with a dot, ie making them "hidden files". THIS WAS A BUG! But users at the time saw this as a FEATURE rather than a bug, so instead of fixing the "bug" the developers of ls introduced the -a tag to INCLUDE "hidden files". (later on also the -A tag to exclude dot paths but NOT the hidden files)

Is that Rudeus?

@@Skynightburst The one and only

what's the app name?

@@insxder It's just Syncthing in play market (or a play store? since when it's called like that? 0_0) (I'm not that based yet to use fdroid, I'm sorry for that)

​@@insxderSyncthing

If you have tailscale, you can also create your own discovery server for more privacy

@@autohmae I know, its called headscale. I have entire docker compose for that even with integrated webui

@@demanuDJ I meant, if you aren't using Syncthing with your own discovery server, it's still connecting to other places outside of your tailscale network to know know how to connect to each other.

Did you get syncthing to work with tailscale with only local discovery enabled? Didn't work for me, I still had to enable global discovery to get it to work.

I'm adding id and addresses manualy, first is my lan address, second my tailscale address

I 💜dad jokes!

syncthing been around for like a decade lmao

@@gg-gn3refinally, been waiting for someone to make this comment for awhile

its been popular for years

I use it to sync my Obsidian vault across devices

@@alex12rayis it easier for syncing obsidian vaults than GitHub?

@@alex12ray Was about to look into using it for this.

Same

​@@alex12rayme too, it just works

thats exactly what i use it for too :)

self hosted Nextcloud is straight up a private Google Drive replacement and then some

I mean not everyone is willing to run a home server 24/7 big or small at home nor have the storage space required. Though i can agree that imthe average joe that so happens to regularly use his laptop/desktop and stores pictures from their phones into it, maybe syncthing is a good viable option

@@WeirdDuck781 True, not everyone is willing, but they should be considering how extremely easy it is these days. You could buy a pre-built NAS for less than an expensive gaming computer costs or build one yourself from an SBC using ready-made images and just plug and play with limited entering of information, and very low amounts of skill required to put the pieces together.

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you think you can hide huh, ima waiting for the paper

@@tomatcreethanks, tomatcree

syncthing is written in Go and thus 1 executable that works on virtually every platform. Of course it works on artix..

^^^ THIS!!! Also, not a bad idea to setup your own vpn server you connect through from the internet. I don't actually use this, but I suspect you need to open ports for this to work, but with a vpn, you go throught the vpn ports to gain access to your LAN, no need to open more ports.

Discovery servers usually only facilitate connection between peers (ie when behind nat). The data is still sent peer to peer and end to end encrypted.

@@MikeKrasnenkov And you know this how? Do you have access to the source code? The second you put your trust in another persons server you are in a "trust me bro" situation. I DO NOT SAY the devs of this software is not to be trusted, I am simply saying that if you want to bypass that step and not have to wonder, the solution is tp use a private vpn.

@@marcusjohansson668syncthing is open source so yes, I do have access to the source code

@@marcusjohansson668 regarding trust me bro bit - you can use untrusted storage safely with proper encryption scheme. Your POV is a bit absolutist - eventually you are trusting third party at some point, unless you can declare that you fully designed and manufactured your own hardware and software stack on your own.