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).

  • Autonomous User@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    Is Syncthing my ideal backup application?¶

    No. Syncthing is not a great backup application because all changes to your files (modifications, deletions, etc.) will be propagated to all your devices. You can enable versioning, but we encourage you to use other tools to keep your data safe from your (or our) mistakes.

    https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#is-syncthing-my-ideal-backup-application

    Sync is sync. Sync is NOT backup.

  • ShortN0te@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Really surprised about this. I am using syncthing now for many years on various devices and never encountered issues with it. And also, file sync is not a backup solution.

  • antihumanitarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I had some similar and obscure corruption issues that wound up being a symptom of failing ram in a main server node. After that, only issues have been conflicts. So I’d suggest checking hardware health in addition to the ideas about backups vs sync.

    • ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Never tried unison or resilio can check. As for seafile, that is what I had before. At some point I realized I was getting several issues with desktop mostly, and the storage was only accessible from seafile wich in my case I am not OK with. Mostly was the inconsistencies between oses

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        There is a dockerized version of GoodSync, tho I’ve only used the windows version, so I can’t really vouch for it. Might be something worth looking at. I chime in with the others here in that I use Synchthing and I’ve never had any issues with corrupt files, but I can understand how that would be unacceptable.