On 17 October 2016 at 21:41, Jonathan Steel via Peterboro < peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 17 Oct 2016 at 20:12, Russell Armstong via Peterboro wrote: > > Another option is syncthing which looks to do same thing and is open > > source. I will be looking at this to see if it can replace Resilio Sync > for > > us. > > +1 for syncthing; > +1 for both Resilio Sync and SyncThing, and least in principle. I never got the latter to work properly for me but it is FOSS so should definitely be the place to start. Resilio Sync on the other hand just works and has lots of features which might be useful which I don't know if they're available on SyncThing yet (I haven't tried it in well over a year and it was developing quite fast). I'd love to hear the experiences of anyone trying syncthing now. One thing in Resilio that might be useful is encrypted sync folders. Eg your family member has their folder unencrypted on their PC(s), but the sync-ed version on your PC is encrypted, so its their backup and you don't have access to the files, you're just hosting them. The reason I ended up with Reslio not Syncthing was I couldn't get the latter to reliably sync between home (NAT) networks without poking holes in firewalls, something which Resilio never blinked at. Like I said, it's probably moved on since I last looked though. The negative for Resilio is that it isn't FOSS, and they have shifted the goalposts over the years in terms of what you get for free (as in beer). For home use even the paid version isn't that expensive, but as far as licensing is concerned, knowing where you stand now is where you'll stand in a year or three is a big feature that Syncthing has that Resilio doesn't. A word of warning though: make sure you understand the difference between having a copy and having a backup. If the precious files are synchronised between multiple PCs on multiple sites then you're protected against hardware failure, house fires, theft, etc. On the other hand, if you accidentally edit or delete a file, or get a virus that encrypts everything and holds you to ransom, then having the edit/delete/encrypt mirrored seamlessly across all your systems is exactly what you don't want to happen. Make sure that the sync is configured to keep old versions of files or that you are doing something else to back them up (I use rsnapshot for that personally). -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER
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