Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

Re:Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system by liuliu on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @08:03PM (#18135903)

I switched to Syncthing with the main desktop backed up to S3 with zbackup (encrypted). Syncthing works really well (and faster!) when keeping laptops and desktops in sync for my case.

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Re:Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system by drakenot on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @09:26PM (#18136350)

The one killer feature I wish Syncthing had was untrusted peers like Resilio has. There has been an issue[0] open since 2014 but I guess there are still major challenges to this feature.

It would be great for me to be able to specify a certain node as encrypted and read-only like I can in Resilio. If a friend wanted to store his files on my machine and vice-versa, we could do so without being forced to give access to each others plaintext files. Likewise, if I wanted to spin up a VPS and host an untrusted node to help facilitate syncing but didn't want my unencrypted files to be sitting on the disk, I could do so easily.

[0] https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/109

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Re:Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system by browsercoin on Friday October 05, 2018 @12:57AM (#18145841)

can you please explain what scenario this applies....whatis...node/

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Re:Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system by stevenringo on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @08:46PM (#18136117)

How do you use Syncthing with S3?

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Re:Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system by dexterdog on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @09:50PM (#18136478)

Just have a service on one of your nodes sync the local directory to S3 occasionally, but SyncThing doesn't do it for you.

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