Looking forward to setting up my used #thinkpad with #linuxmint next week. Looking for recos for easy syncing, mainly for my #emacs and #orgmode stuff. What have you used that you could recommend? I do have GDrive working well on my Windows machines, so could go that route,, though not familiar with how to do that on linux. Thanks!
@birv2 3 Linux hosts, 2 Android, a Linux server. I also used same setup with Windows 10 as well for a couple of years.
I would not say overwhelming. It's a couple of hours playing around with the concept, trying out features with test data and then it's much easier than any cloud-driven security threat. 😉
@birv2 By default, it's checking constantly. With Linux, there is a kernel feature to notify on changes. On Windows, I guess it does check each xx seconds but I don't know for sure since I don't need to use that any more.
@publicvoit could you explain in some detail (or point to a good detailed write-up) about how exactly this works for you? setting #syncthing between two local machines is relatively strightforward, but you mention multiple machines with at least one server; is the server your cetral storage? what exactly do you expose to the internet to be able do sync from outside your lan? etc., etc.
i'm with #owncloud, but looking for a simpler setup.
@tivasyk@birv2 Well, with Syncthing, you don't need any public IP or firewall hole even if they are not in the same LAN.
In my case, my home computer is running 24/7 and it is my server as well. So it holds everything including phone syncthing shares and shares from my wife with her data. So I only need to backup one single machine.
@publicvoit eh, having a networking background, i don't see how the first part of your statement works :-(
e.g.: with owncloud, i need (very simplified) to use dynamic dns to point to my setup AND expose ports 443 on the router AND have port redirection to the owncloud server on lan AND a reverse proxy to resolve url to the corresponding docker container AND have the proxy manage the tls certificate from let's encrypt…
i just don't see how syncthing «just works». any details?
@publicvoit alternatively, i could vpn into my own lan instead of dealing with 443 & tls, and that could be a good setup for syncthing (again, if it doesn't require 80/443). is that what you do? yet still: a dynamic or static ip, the on-router port redirection for vpn (unless it's configured on the router), etc., etc?
If I'd go down that road (I would not as long as I can use Syncthing), I'd probably take a look at wireguard, although this would require an Android ROM that has network firewalls built-in (no Google stock ROM has that) so that I don't have to "use up" that single VPN slot for NetGuard.
@publicvoit@tivasyk I'm getting my used Thinkpad tomorrow. First I'll put linux and emacs on it. Then I'll start to work on putting SyncThing on that and my desktop. Hoping for the best! Thanks for the discussion and suggestions.
@birv2@tivasyk Syncthing hosts do sync to each other as soon as both sides are connected to the Internet or the same LAN and you didn't limit to a set of pre-defined WiFi networks or similar.
With my home computer running 24/7 and all of my many many shares also hosted on that machine, my sync works 24/7 with all of my shares.
@TheSecondVariation@publicvoit If you're asking me, I'm trying to figure out how to sync my stuff across multiple devices: Windows, LinuxMint, iPhone, iPad..... so that I can do #emacs and #orgmode on all of them.
Yeah so syncthing usually just worked for me on Linux and android (on android the webui is better or needed). Windows I have no experience. I was wondering why it seemed overwhelming to you. @birv2@publicvoit
However, Apple is different - as always. They don't want services like that because they compete with their cloud and therefore it's only working with a fragile fork, as far as I understood it.
One of the major reasons I'm not going to use any of their devices again. 🤷
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