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Syncthing alternatives (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Curious about your point about time conflicts. Doesn't syncthing look at the change on your machine compared to the 'canonical' list also stored on your machine? So even if the timestamp is different, syncthing still detects the change, and the only problem is if the file is simultaneously modified on another machine before being propagated - which would be a conflict anyway.

[–] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It didn't work like that for me. I must admit I didn't dig deep to clearly see what is the problem. So my setup had a Windows Pc, a Raspberry Pi 5, and an Android phone, sharing a folder which had notes.

Whenever I save any changes in Windows machine, the android used gets updated without much issue, but the Raspberry Pi caused conflicts. When looked at the time stamps they were different and it looked to me like the Raspberry Pi 5 Syncthing is sending the old file as new one, because of the save time.

It read somewhere the issue is with how time is handled in Rasberry Pi. So I disabled the Raspberry Pi Syncthing and went on, because that was not really needed.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Huh, interesting. I'll bear that in mind - I don't like the idea of a system clock error causing an old file to overwrite a new one!