How to Sync Local Files
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- čas přidán 19. 01. 2023
- A guide over how to set up Syncthing for local sync only. It shows file verisoning, symlinks, and more tricks.
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Been using this to sync all my LEGALLY ACQUIRED music files with my phone for years now. 👍
I do the same thing. Download my songs, fix up the metadata, put it in my organized folder system and then make a playlist (all on my laptop). It syncs to my NAS, and in turn syncs to my phone. I have found this only works with Android because iPhone has everything siloed.
I too enjoy syncing my linux iso's
Funnily enough i did actually download like 15 different linux iso's and distros yesterday, so this time im not even joking
That's a good idea then syncing my obsidian vault full of my learning experiences with c++
Love the videos man, I learn more from watching you than a lot of places and you are a natural teacher.
Chris, this video was incredibly helpful for my needs. Please keep up the great work with videos like these!
Great walkthrough, not a snore fest at all! I hadn’t considered symlinking my saves, great tip! Also appreciate the leads on Synctrayzer and Syncthing-gtk.
Thanks for sharing this info, always good to see and learn sys administration at work... appreciate the format and the deeper dive into the topics in question... best CZcams channel in my opinion and I have learned so much from this channel in regards to IT & windows/linux. Thank you CTT
First FreshRSS now Syncthing video. Get out of my project notebook. I start something and on the same day you upload video about the topic :D
As a none gamer, I am very happy to hear you let people know about syncthing, a great tool! I have a main PC on my desk at the office at home, I sync that device to my Laptops, so that when I am meeting with a client or out and about, any changes I make in my files are automatically backed up to my PC at home. Instant backup. Then on my home PC, I run BackinTime to incrementally backup to another drive. BackinTime is Mac OS Time Machine, only better. I have also just started setting up a clients small business PC's, about 10 o f them, to sync to a local server, using syncthing because windows back sucks hind t_t! Love this tool!
Not a snooze fest at all. This was perfect and it was the first thing I clicked on this morning. I was just about to write a lame robocopy script for one way syncing with my drum set laptop. This is a thousand times better. Thank you. Oh, I'm headed over to your channel now to search for a sync thing video. 🙂
I love these videos where i get to learn about a new thing i may be interested in!
Thanks for the video. Just hearing about Syncthing and your advice is a great help for getting started. Cheers.
Yes I like this format, quick and practical. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the idea of the Game Saves Chris, you're awesome!
Using this to sync my obsidian vault between machines and my Android.
Works very fast and is rock solid
that symlink idea has just been adopted, tyvm!
I freaking love Syncthing-works great between Linux and Windows computers (and I think MacOS, too). The Android app is pretty great too. I'd encourage folks to read the docs, as there are plenty more configuration options (like making folder send-and-receive, send-only, or receive-only, setting ignore patterns, etc.) that can be set on a per-folder basis.
How well does iOS integrate?
Thank you for this video. It has been very helpful for my commercial projects.
Good video, like the deeper dive approach.
Awesome vid. I'm still using synctoy 2.x for sync'ing archive backups, but if/when I get a central file server, syncthing looks like a winner for continuous sync between active devices.
This looks really useful. I should check whether it can automatically move files too. I've been using a paid program called SecondCopy for years because it has a fairly simple UI and is very flexible, but I'd prefer something that's not limited to just one OS.
i use it for the backup of my photos on my phone and access (almost) instantly on my computer after just took it, it's just awesome 👍
very good video, really help me a lot! Thanks
Great video really helpful as always.
I used to use syncthing but kept having conflicts between files and speeds where limited.
I then switch to resilio sync, haven't had an issue since. It's been 2 years since I've first installed it on our Synology Nas
Hey Chris, I've tried Syncthing in the past, but I couldn't figure out how to set it up so if I delete a file from a client, it doesn't delete it from the server, how would you go around doing that?
Thank you man! I will do that when I get home!
Can you explain how to set up Syncthing as a substitute for Dropbox/Nextcloud.
E.g. I have 2 PCs and a VPS. I want to share files between PCs via a local network if they are on a local network. And sync to the VPS directly without relays.
My go to IT advice man!
I love this app for syncing my KeyPassXC database between Win, Mac & Android using an always on RPi 3b (that also runs PiHole), because I do not trust online password managers
Thanks for this! Just what I need right now, will run on a RPi4 with 4TB USB3 drive, along with Pi-Hole, plugged into the router. Well, that's the plan anyhoo :)
Syncthing is great for bidirectional syncing multiple files across network.
but it doesn't sync 2 local files. what tool am I able to use for that. (looked into rsync, but that's unidirectional - copies one way from a main folder to other folder, not both ways)
As a single user, I use Allways Sync. I use it to back up PC files to a removable HDD. It does a reasonable job.
The biggest test is when I MOVE a file (receipts to completed archive, photos sorted by date, etc.)
A fast sync process would MOVE the files in the sync, but most apps delete and re-copy instead.
I used to use that 10-15 years ago (wow, time flies!) at uni... it was great being able to sync my assessments and electronic course materials between a network drive at the uni, and home computer via a flash drive and not have to worry about multiple versions, or what was the latest copy.
Love your videos. Tank you.
Funny thing is i just discovered and used Syncthing this week, This is fantastic 😄
I've been using SyncThing to keep my phone photos backed up somewhere I control (my home Debian box). I also have another folder to push music from my computer back to the phone.
Very useful. Thanks
I have a problem hope someone can help me. How to share files from c:/users/public? I downloaded re4 and it creates its save files into public folder not into my csben Main user
Thanks for this. I'm trying to get my head round Syncthing. I'd love to find an instruction that explained how to setup syncthing between a PC and an Android phone. All the YT vids is watch at some point start introducing complicated factors like Linux, NAS boxes etc etc.
Dataminers have found hints that Valve is developing native ptp file sharing. Will definitely be a nice QOL change when it gets here.
could you create a video about self hosting a calendar with tasks and contacts for a familiy? I have a Raspberry Pi Zero 1 wireless free to use.Baikal is running on it , but I would like to have a way to let Davx5 only sync if the devices are connected to the home network and not searching randomly in a public wifi for the baikal server. I am concerned since it uses digest and md5 for securing the server .
would love to see your solution for this "problem" since I am not satisfied with my approach. Also do not know how good syncthing fits my problem.
How did you customize rofi to have all that sweet style and animations?
Grate video! I was wondering if you could make one about the new update of nextcloud and how to set an raspberry pi as a home nas to access from the internet! THX
How does this compare to the likes of Nextcloud?
The way I have my Nextcloud set up, I can sync the documents folder on my laptop back to the server at home, even when I'm outside, which means if I lose the laptop, I don't lose the data.
It also automatically uploads the photos I take on my phone to the Nextcloud server.
Is this syncthing is not secured? Because you said you don’t care if someone login into to this app and see only games folder. What do you recommend for important files like your personal documents and photos?
Just curious on how he switched desktops. Thanks and have a great day! 😊
As always, great info. I've seen rainmeter before but never installed it. So here is my dum question. How should we evaluate if something is safe to install (not from a bugs/compatibility perspective but from malicious code perspective. Installers are often not scripts and we can't see what it's doing... how to we decide this is likely ok? What can I add to my list. I check to see how long the software has been out in the wild... but sometimes a project can have a fork of a similar name... then I look for people I trust like like CTT to share link to project and trust they did more due diligence than I could. and finally I search for app name and "warning" to see if anything comes up. I'm sure there is more I could be doing but not sure what that is.
Was the symbolic link just to show it syncing in reverse?
Will symlink let cloudsaves continue?
Are you running MSI afterburner on Linux????
Do you or can you make a video on how to copy a live server to another server that is currently live and replace all the files on it? I have one server that is working correctly and how it's supposed to but the second server is functioning but it's not working how it's supposed to I would rather just copy the working server and change the individual files I need to like static IP and any other configuration files then start fresh and have to do it from scratch.
I have the problem that my remote devices status is disconnected. Anyone knows a fix for this?
How about sync linux and macos enen with window ?
I just started using this within the last two months for obsidean
More like this! Yes!
How about Syncthing with Tailscale so I can connect 'an offsite' location.
Thanks!
How to use syncthing to sync across wireguard vpn?
How did we go from talking about syncthing to sync trazor? I thought since we were gonna use syncthing, I'd be installing and using something called syncthing, not getting syncthing, but somehow opening and interacting with something of a completely different name. I hate it when software devs do this. When I got into Affinity Photo, I didn't download and install Affinity Photo then use some other application to interact with A-Photo as a front-end.
one thing i missing was the ability to synchronize on the same machine but different drivers like i tried to sync my pendrives, but was time ago, gonna have to check again
@ChrisTitusTech Could make a video/short on
"how to check all the ports, other I/O devices and battery depletion status from command prompt/powershell?"
Would be very useful while buying 2nd hand laptops/noteboks
Great video
use syncthing for a while now, it's a really great Foss.
If you are staying inside your network, and using symlinks in windows, is there a benefit to using syncthing over smb?
speed mainly. I personally like mapping my drives in nfs as it yields better performance.
It was fun to see what kind of other tinkering stuff you are into Lol
is there something like this for github?
i have seriously no clue how you make this synctrayzor work. i am trying to share my phone with my laptop for 6 hours now... doesnt work. local discovery, global discovery, doesnt matter. if i click +device on either pc or phone, it doesnt find anything. even if i manually type in the id of the other it says: incorrect
Please do advanced sync using Syncthing: partial synching, archive, how to preserve your documents, security over internet, mobile synching
I've used GoodSync for many, many years.
if you dont like to use CMD for links, you can use Link Shell Extension
Hey Chris,
I need your serious help man
I am using your windows debloat utility from last 2 years no issues so far
But from last 1 week
I am stumbled upon a major problem (already clean installed ws10 pro 3 times but still stucked)
I am using windows 10 pro
The moment I clean install (with all windows update and drivers update) alongwith debloating
everything works fine for exactly 2 days
after that
Internet access for windows app is gone like crazy no access to internet
Whereas it is working fine for everything just fine like chrome, spotify etc
also working fine on windows sandbox
I am on ethernet connection on a DEsktop
I dont know whether it is something wrong with scheduler or what that it restricts internet to native apps after like 2 days.
I tried plugging in an external usb wifi dongle still same issue
I am very frustated
tried each n every fix available on internet but can't resolve it
please help
Please
I don't want to use windows without debloating PLease help 😫😫😢😢
I go way more granular, like not using Windows. I don't play games though, so that makes it easier!
Awesome 👍👍👍👍👍👍
yes please.... we want more...
To help the stats of your main channel, why not make an “extended learning” channel and post updates on your main channel linking the videos from that extended channel.
Oh get out of here you gosh darned mind reader!!!
Literally bending my mind around sorting something out for this without having MS/Goog/etc logged in permanently on my PC!
Relays is such a confusing feature cause you never really want tp use a relay but its usually the main way devices connect over WAN cause they cant find each other
I personally use FreeFileSync for my drives and ftp server. It's very good. But nobody ever mentions that this program exists, I found it by happenstance
FreeFileSync is great! Works on Windows and Linux.
I love Syncthing, but it's just so slow. Even on the local network.
Sounds a lot like a samba share that I can map as a network drive. Besides file versioning which sounds cool. How does it differ?
local files... nfs is what I use for network shares as smb is just so darn slow by comparison. Samba is hot garbage imo.
@@ChrisTitusTech can you do a video comparing samba transfer speeds with nfs and this syncthing ?
Hi, Chris. I used fedora 37. I'am using Win11 now. I switched to win from fedora because I'am master student and ı need to use SPSS and MAXQDA for analysis. However, ı find SPSS alternatives Jamovi but ı couldn't find any good alternatives for MAXQDA.
I thought two options for solution. One is to use virtual win10 on fedora37 and the two is to use bottles or wine.
What do you suggest to me?
Is it enough 40-50 gb space for virtual win10.
Is it enough 3-4 gb ramfor virtual win10.
Are bottles or wine work for this situtaion.
NOTE: I consider to use Obsidian for qualitative anlysis and R programming language for other analysis. I'am using Obsidian for taking academic notes for my research papers now. I just can't try out because ı have limited sources.
I have Lenovo Thinbook 15 Gen2 ARE laptop with 256 GB SSD drive and 8 Gb ram.
Thank you.
need more ram ...and hard drive!
chris im using ur tool and my question is do i redo the tweaks everytime i turn on my pc?
I'm using syncthing for over a year now and I couldn't be happy.
Great video. So many people come to you for Linux info. On that note , when are you going to redo your switching to OpenSUSE videos? They are painful to watch and it gives OpenSUSE a bad name. I think it ends up turning off a bunch of people because they watch your video that you made when you weren't sure what you were doing.
Neat
ok when you said a computer that is always on ,only one thing came to mind. Its an android phone. its an always on computer. can you install syncthing in it ?
Syncthing has a really capable Android app.
I recommend using MEGA for cloud storage. It has a Linux client for every distro known out there. Free 20 GB out-of-the-box and a clean UI. Although the prices are a bit high as compared to other services. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
The things that worries me about MEGA is security, forcing me to encrypt everything.
0:13 CCleaner?
eagle eye... CCleaner doesn't work in Linux, but I had a wine bottle with it as I was doing some shenanigans for counting it's process counts.
I see this all the time, syncthing is not supposed to be used with a central server, what you are supposed to do, is connect every client to each other, for example, if I had two windows, PCs and one Linux, PC on the Linux PC I need to add both Windows pcs to a folder and then on each Windows PC I need to add the Linux PC and the Windows PC to a folder, this way you get peer to peer syncing and you don’t need a Central server like a Nas
Exactly, however doing this with a central server is an good extra step. I have my server set up as an introducer, so all of my clients talk to each other directly still, but they also keep copies on my NAS. Then if I reload a machine, the server is the first sync I set up and it introduces my new machine to the other clients sharing the same folder. You still have to log into the other clients and set up the relationship, but this saves the scan the code, or copy it across machines step, each client just needs approved and allowed to sync the folder. Plus the server always has an up to date copy if my other clients are offline for any reason.
but what if your server is off-line?
Rpi + KeepassXC + SyncThing. Just sayin'.
Is rpi an acronym? Not having success looking it up...
@@leloupization Raspberry Pi
Taking into consideration that KeepassXC does not sync records inside database, you can loose one of modified database copies if they are modified on more than 1 device before syncing.
@@leloupization Raspberry Pi, in other words a 24/7 low-power host.
I'm always suspicious to software with political and/or ideological affiliations.
That painfully contrived thumbnail smile never fails to make wonder…why…? It rarely if ever actually fits the context of the rest of the thumbnail. And if one have watched any of your videos that smile just isn't in any video after the thumbnail. Which is perfectly fine. I personally think you can drop the excessive smiling and save it for a context content wise, where it will feel more organic.
You’re obviously a creative person Chris so I’m certain u could do a lot better with the thumbnails.
Cheers! 🙏👍✌️🖖
Thanks for the feedback, Tried a bunch of variations and typically me smiling just has a higher CTR. I'd rather just make a black screen with text, but CZcams is CZcams. I'll experiment with some new face expressions and give a bit more variety. At the end of the day it's just a numbers game on the thumbnail.
Funny thing is, some other creators can get away with just a regular thumbnail without their face, but I agree, I'll get more creative with the thumbnail.
New camera (or lens) is too close, ur face gets warped Chris
Yeah I'm like a foot away from the lens, Trying to find a good alternative to have a bit more room where I record. I'll keep playing around with it until I find something a bit better.
Cloud sux.
It just someone elses computer after all ;)
If anyone is on KDE, you should use syncthing tray. Its like synctrayzor but on Linux. imo, its much better than syncthing-gtk.