Syncthing is just open source Dropbox, self hosted.
It's entire purpose is "make two folders identical".
It's very good at that: so good that I frequently wish it did other things - i.e. if it had some notion of minimum seeding levels so it would destage files off a device provided they were replicated elsewhere (e.g. automatically clearing old photos off your phone would be a good use of it).
Re:Signal Secure Backups
by roywiggins on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @08:16AM
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Yeah, I think I was just trying to get it to do something it wasn't suited for!
I recently vibe-coded a crappy Windows Go GUI to grab files off my phone via rclone & sshd4a and then optionally delete them, but it's a very manual process since sshd4a has to be running on the phone before I initiate the pull.