What are you non-obvious, maybe strange usecases of Syncthing?

For example syncing the media library with your friend or maybe your entire /home/user folder between your PC and laptop?

I’d love to hear your ideas!

  • wittless@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have a site to site VPN between my house and my mother’s house. I keep a raspberry pi at her house with a 2TB drive running syncthing. My photo library and important documents sync to her house as an offsite backup in case my house ever burned to the ground.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      as far as syncing files between PC and laptop, I would think ownCloud would be better suited for that.

      The main purpose of Syncthing is syncing files between two or more computers and it does an excellent job of that.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I’m currently building the same setup, the long-term goal being a Crashplan-type solution (back when they had a feature where you could backup to your friend’s devices).

      Having a large family, there a many geographically distributed locations for us all to use.

      As for OwnCloud, ST is far simpler to setup. Granted, it’s not nearly as flexible. I do use it to keep all our laptops and phones “backed up” to a desktop that runs Crashplan and Backblaze.

      Edit: With ST that VPN isn’t even required. It will sync, encrypted, over most any connection.