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by scumola 845 days ago
syncthing blows. Don't trust your data to it. Tons of posts on the forums about "out of sync" and no real answers other than "delete the database and start over". I've given syncthing a try over and over again for > 10 years and every time it fails to sync.

Use rsync.

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I've never had to delete a Syncthing database, but I have had issues where computers don't always see each other (for one thing, you need to run as root on Android or it can't discover computers using mDNS) and a constant stream of sync conflict files.
I don't know what you must be doing because I've been using it for years and haven't had any problems that weren't quickly solved
Syncthing doesn't have a DB? Are you thinking of Duplicati maybe?