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Re: [LUG] [External] Syncthing to sync files on two computers?

 
I use Syncthing - it's great to sync things... presuming everything stays in sync 😊

I see the other responses are looking for more info too, but to answer your sync 
questions:

Syncthing has an option to monitor the filesystem for changes - uses this. 
Otherwise, it's a periodic scan, and I'm presuming your wife is in the camp of 
"click save and close laptop lid"... no time for syncthing to do it's work.

If you leave a document open on 1 laptop, then edit on the other, you'll have a 
sync-conflict file... not the end of the world (I'm glad they get created!) but it's 
then a chore to work out which file is the latest... or worse... combination of 
files!

The benefit of syncthing over just sharing the home folder, is that you can decide 
what folders / files are (/not) sync'd... if you shared your entire home folder then 
(i.e.) web browser cache is also being transferred too...

One other benefit of syncthing is if you use the Versioning feature. Then, if 
something gets deleted / corrupted, then you'll potentially have a "backup" (sync is 
not backup...) file somewhere. Versioning will need careful tuning, before you know 
it, you'll have 5x disk space used up. You'll probably also have different versions 
on each laptop and none on the USB drive.
 

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From: list <list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Pentiddy
Sent: 23 February 2021 16:39
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Subject: [External] [LUG] Syncthing to sync files on two computers?

Hello all...

Another question, or rather opening another discussion!

I have just bought a second Laptop for my wife to use for work she is now doing 
online.
She is quite tech disinterested, and hates when I change anything, move anything etc.
My thought was to somehow make both machines look/act the same (as far as possible) 
and one idea was to sync them using syncthing. Now this is fine if both machines are 
on, but there are problems it seems if one is not.
I have a usb drive plugged into the router and have successfully mapped it so it 
mounts. However unless files are saved to this device, they will not appear on both 
machines.
The ideal would be for both machines to sync to the usb drive and not to each other. 
Being off grid I do not want to run a NAS/server...
Thoughts on how this might work would be great. I assume you cannot just 'share' a 
home folder?!!

Rsync? Cron? Syncthing? Something else?

Thank you

Anthony



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