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Hi,

As the title suggests: what are alternatives to syncthing that are basically fire and forget, works on multiple device types, and just focuses on file syncing?

I've had over the months the weirdest problems with syncthing, and lately I noticed some of my photos got corrupted, which is an absolute no no for me. I use syncthing currently as a easy automatic backup of documents, photos and other files, between my PCs and my phones (they all send only to the server. Folders are not shared with other devices).

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How is rclone fire and forget? You have you manually run it every sync, right?

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can set it up as a service to monitor a remote directory. I have it running using nssm on windows on my seedbox. I'll torrent something, give it a while and boom, it's on my NAS without doing anything.

Same concept here. So yeah, set it once, and forget about it.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

Ah, so it has a "watch" mode? Cool.