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by liuliu 2816 days ago
I switched to Syncthing with the main desktop backed up to S3 with zbackup (encrypted). Syncthing works really well (and faster!) when keeping laptops and desktops in sync for my case.
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The one killer feature I wish Syncthing had was untrusted peers like Resilio has. There has been an issue[0] open since 2014 but I guess there are still major challenges to this feature.

It would be great for me to be able to specify a certain node as encrypted and read-only like I can in Resilio. If a friend wanted to store his files on my machine and vice-versa, we could do so without being forced to give access to each others plaintext files. Likewise, if I wanted to spin up a VPS and host an untrusted node to help facilitate syncing but didn't want my unencrypted files to be sitting on the disk, I could do so easily.

[0] https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/109

can you please explain what scenario this applies....whatis...node/
How do you use Syncthing with S3?
Just have a service on one of your nodes sync the local directory to S3 occasionally, but SyncThing doesn't do it for you.