On 2015/07/21 at 02:59pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:09:38 +1000, wraeth wrote:
> > > Have you tried Syncthing - http://syncthing.net/ ? > > No I haven't, but one of the main reasons for that is because I > > mostly bypassed online (read: not controlled by myself) services > > for any sort of syncing - I eyed a couple, but my primary thought > > was to retain proper control of my data. > Syncthing is peer-to-peer. You can use their discovery server (or > run your own) for clients to find one another, but data always takes > the direct route. However, it is only for syncing, if you need the > extra features, ownCloud works well. I have been using Syncthing also, for maybe a year now. It works well once you get it set up. Recently, the Android app (in F-Droid) has also been working well - for a while it couldn't find any of my machines. Like Neil said, though, Syncthing has no extra features - it just syncs between devices. The machines have to be online at the same time or no syncing happens, because there is no server in the middle to keep the data. Maybe because of this, I have had far fewer issues with conflicting file versions with Syncthing than I had with Dropbox. FWIW, I tried ownCloud a couple of times and could never get it up and running properly. -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett
