#Syncthing one way sync free#
OneDrive, on the other hand, has been a nuisance to use, especially in iOS-the file provider still fails to sync occasionally (especially uploads), so I’ve been uploading files to my Macs using the Dropbox free tier and having the Synology shunt the files across via SyncThing. There is the occasional bit of weirdness when I do a git status on a slower machine that has just woken up and it throws up fatal: bad object HEAD until sync finishes (usually within a few minutes when it needs to catch up on a few days’ changes when I’m remote), but nothing that gets in the way–in that regard, SyncThing has been more than fit for purpose.
#Syncthing one way sync code#
On the other hand, I’m also actively filing away old projects into a Gitea instance (also running on the Synology as a Docker container from linuxserver.io) because my Dropbox was just too cluttered with millions of source code files, so it’s early days yet–there is a lot of change afoot.īut, again, some form of sync status indicators in Finder would be nice. Having multiple folders (or, more accurately, “roots” synced across multiple machines makes it harder to keep track of what is synced and isn’t, and the lack of a Dropbox/ OneDrive-like graphical “selective sync” feature is especially annoying–I am too used to “fetching” old projects by just popping into the UI and telling it I want those synced to the local machine. Something I’ve noticed is that SyncThing carries with it a lot more mental overhead (which was what I expected, but still).
It also worked without any hitches when we were hanging off my 4G hotspot off in the country (I took my Elementary laptop and it was able to use STUN to talk to my Synology within seconds). letting me switch machines between my Macs and my Elementary laptop and pick up my projects exactly where I left off with minimal friction). So far, SyncThing has worked OK for its use case (i.e. On the NAS, I have SyncThing’s history feature switched off for most of those shared folders (especially the git ones, where it would be more hindrance than help), A notable exception is my photo inbox folder (where I sort and cull photos), that keeps local history on my iMac.Īs a safety net, I rely on Time Machine, the Synology’s #recycle folder and the fact that the entire NAS backs up to Azure daily.Ĭonsidering that I very seldom needed to use Dropbox’s 30-day history, I think that’s good enough, although (to be fair) Dropbox’s UI makes recovery a lot easier. So as long as the NAS is on, any machine I log on to is sure to have a fresh copy of everything synced from it. This instance both re-publishes what’s left of my Dropbox folder (so that I can have a small subset of files available on iOS) and keeps a Synology-side mirror of a few specific folders (essentially this site, a couple of other large, standalone projects and a Development folder with all my active git repositories). Running an instance per user seems entirely feasible for 4-5 people, but right now I’m only doing it for myself (and since we all have OneDrive at home, that is likely to be sufficient).
#Syncthing one way sync full#
To ensure I have full control in terms of folder isolation and networking configuration, I am running a dedicated SyncThing Docker container ( this one, with the usual linuxserver.io trimmings 1) under my Synology UID.
Then I removed Dropbox from all my Macs, and installed SyncThing on the Synology–but not using the “standard” Synology SyncThing package. This freed up my iMac from doing the heavy lifting and made the migration effectively instant, although I did have to wait another couple of days for everything to propagate across (and every time I fired up another machine OneDrive spent a good while churning through the changes, which is one of its weak points). Like originally planned, I leveraged Synology’s Cloud Sync feature to migrate things across–I added Dropbox and OneDrive to my user account on my Synology DS1019+, waited a couple of days until it had downloaded everything, then moved files across inside my user account from one folder to the other. It’s been nearly two months now since I began the process of switching away from Dropbox and onto a combination of SyncThing and OneDrive and I’m overdue a status report of some kind, so here goes.
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