Comment by atoav
6 years ago
I use Syncthing¹ for years now, mainly to sync the notes I write on my phone to my laptop and vice versa, but also as a way to sync my photos to my PC. Or as a way to sync my keepass password safe to other locations.
It only really works when two of the sharing machines are online at the same time. I work around this by having a rasperry pi running 24/7 which does it's thing.
I always tried to avoid cloud based services, because I don't want to keep thinking about whether I can trust cloud providers and I kinda like the idea of a LAN beeing used for LAN things – you know.. local stuff.
Does Syncthing work reliably for you? I've been unable to make it work.
I've set it up to backup folders from my phone to a LAN storage drive (running it as a service on Windows, with the storage connected as a network drive), but it seems to "forget" the connection between the server and the phone. It says the folders are up to date, and won't pull the most recent files and photos from the phone.
I had problems on android too. if I recall right, it had to do with power saving/background connections. Somwhere in the android app settings you can allow syncthing to run in background or so, then it works
Yes, I allowed background running in the power saving settings - this helps in the short term.
But the problem seems to be in the server; after restarting the computer or the phone, the connection between folders seems to be lost - it doesn't "see" the remote folder anymore, even if its ID has not changed.
To be fair, this doesn't happen with Syncthing only. Other tools like Nitroshare or Dukto are also hit or miss when trying to connect from the phone.
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I’d love to try that, but unfortunately iOS hates open source software and it seems nobody has made a working app for iPhone yet...
Lack of SyncThing is my greatest pain point after having switched from Android to iOS.