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by exfascist 1529 days ago
For those of you in need of an immediate drop-in replacement that won't tie you to an organization which will do the same thing a decade from now: Syncthing[1] is awesome. It's all FOSS, peer to peer, you're limited by your own hardware and network, and it uses PKI instead of some central auth service. The only reason I don't use it anymore is because I've switched to git for all my textfiles and rsync (lol I know) for archiving binaries, that won't work for people who use a lot of GUI tools though so I'd recommend you use Syncthing.

[1] https://syncthing.net/
3 comments
falcolas 1529 days ago
One feature of Dropbox I take shameless advantage of is sharing files (not pirated material, FWIW) via a link. Suggestions on a replacement for that, since Syncthing can't do that?
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pragmatic 1527 days ago
This.

I found old save games still shared via Dropbox or Google docs that work 7-8 years later.

The combinations I see in other comments are not going to survive that long.

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exfascist 1529 days ago
ipfs + the cloudflare gateway is great for that, I use it for sharing files here. You don't even have to install anything and can use EG: https://anarkrypto.github.io/upload-files-to-ipfs-from-brows...
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mindslight 1529 days ago
I've never used Syncthing, but I used to use Unison pretty hard. Why did you switch to rsync for binaries? Was it that you really didn't need bidirectional sync, or was it a failing of the tool to handle large binary files?
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exfascist 1529 days ago
I don't edit binaries (or if I do the edits are always saved in a new file) so I just need a full archive of them. Syncthing is overkill for this so eventually I moved away from it and now only a couple of my machines have it running.
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Antipode 1529 days ago
What's wrong with using rsync for that?
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spicybright 1529 days ago
Nothing. But rsync isn't in the same space that syncthing is trying to do.

It's like comparing `scp` to something like `sshfs` mounted to a shared folder, and having an algorithm to handle file conflicts.

I'm a heavy syncthing user, but still do rsync to deploy changes to my personal VPS because I don't need any of that.

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