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by cosmojg 1644 days ago
How does this compare to Syncthing or rsync?
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brnt 1644 days ago
Freefilesync gives you a (good!) gui to observe and then resolve differences between file trees. This is useful if the keep-latest strategy all of those 'blind' sync tools doesn't (always) work for your use case. Freefilesync has let me catch accidental deletes countless times for instance. I use Syncthing and rclone as well, but for some use cases I need 'eyes'.
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sidpatil 1644 days ago
Overall, FreeFileSync is more like Unison [1] than like Syncthing or rsync. Though, I haven't really used rsync, so I can't make a detailed comparison.

Syncthing is automated/daemon, so the syncing happens in the background automatically. FreeFileSync's default behavior requires manual start/stop of sync jobs, though it does have an optional real-time sync feature.

The main advantage of Syncthing is that it supports multiple hosts/locations for the same backup, and that syncing is P2P between the hosts.

[1] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

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ZoomZoomZoom 1644 days ago
First of all, both of these are different beasts. Syncthing requires building a network layer of trusted machines to share files between.

FFS is closer to Rsync and the main feature is fast and detailed file tree inspection and conflict resolution with the help of GUI.

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