Re:Syncthing graduation day
by ioddly on Saturday January 05, 2019 @03:23PM
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I switched to Syncthing from Dropbox a few months ago. While there are a handful of warts, the actual syncing seems to Just Work (TM). I am massively impressed with this, as building even a centralized file hosting service is quite the undertaking. I donated and I'd encourage others to do it as well, link on the homepage: https://syncthing.net/
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> handful of warts
What type of issues?
What I'm thinking of are synced ignore lists of some sort. I think I read in the issue tracker that this is something they plan to change eventually.
And related, sync % reflecting ignored files. For example I've ignored a bunch of transient things like node_modules so my backup server sync is permanently at 70% even though it's actually up to date with all the files I want synced.
I do this in two steps:
1. An "stignore.txt" at the root of a shared directory. This gets automatically synced to every device.
2. "#include stignore.txt" in '.stignore' that I need to manually write on every new device.