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by arctux 2659 days ago
I'm syncing around 90 GB between my server, laptop, and LineageOS Pixel phone. I use it to sync my documents, music, passwords, and archived pictures. I also use it to sync photos taken by my phone camera as they are taken.

Setup:

* Camera: 1.8 GB, 243 files

* Documents: 10.8 GB, 4604 files

* Music: 61.5 GB, 25077 files

* Passwords: 660 KB, 726 files

* Pictures: 16.5 GB, 6450 files

The passwords are managed by 'pass' [0], which is viewable on my phone using Password Store [1]. Cold-launching Syncthing takes ~10 seconds on my phone, but it does it automatically on boot and thereafter runs in the background. Battery impact seems to be negligible.

[0]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

[1]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.zeapo.pwdstore/ and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeapo.pwds...