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Re:Syncthing graduation day by callahad on Saturday January 05, 2019 @03:00PM (#18833855)
SyncThing has been completely reliable for the past two years across my Android phone, Linux laptop, and a Linux NAS.

I use it to backup photos / videos that I capture on my phone, as well as to sync my KeePass database and Org Mode files which I edit on both my phone and laptop, often concurrently. My largest folder is 46 GB across 9,416 files.

The SyncThing Usage Data dashboard at https://data.syncthing.net/ has really interesting statistics: apparently at the 50th percentile, users are syncing more than 5,300 files and over 12.3 GB of data.

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Re:Syncthing graduation day by marksomnian on Saturday January 05, 2019 @04:26PM (#18834368)
Wow, either I'm reading the stats wrong, or someone has 84.6 TiB in Syncthing. That's impressive.
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Re:Syncthing graduation day by seabrookmx on Saturday January 05, 2019 @06:27PM (#18835060)
I don't think this is too crazy as long as it's made up of big files (video perhaps?)

I'm using Syncthing for misc files but accidentally dropped a large git repo in it about a month ago... All the tiny files caused it to really chug.

Not that this is really Syncthing's fault.. file system operations over many files just tend to be way slower.

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