I’m using Synchthing as home managed backup for my phone (too cheap to pay google lol). I have the instance running on my ASUSTOR NAS but I’m unable to find the folders where the files are being synced to.
The Syncthing portal says the status of the folders in up to date and I can see the files being uploaded from my phone but when I try to find the backup folder location on the NAS, it’s not there.
To test if it was actually working to some degree, I used a windows machine as a storage point without an issue but I’m having to then manually transfer the files to the NAS.
Hi Andy, I have done that but I can’t find the folder in the NAS folder explorer or on a Windows machine that has the NAS mapped as a network drive.
For instance, the NAS directory “home/All/Phone Backups” is where Syncthing has the backups stored, but when trying to navigate there, they don’t exist.
Keeping in mind most NASes use multiple levels of path mapping, so you’ll have the path something has from the outside (SMB/NFS/etc share), the path it has on local disk and the path that is mapped to in a running container (which is often how Syncthing runs here). The path Syncthing sees will likely differ from what is actually on disk which differs from what is exposed.
The details are NAS and deployment specific, but this seems to be the recurring source of confusion.
Additionally, when running in a container, the path there is usually referred to as a volume mapping or volume path, which is also what most NASes call their disks/partitions/etc, but the two are different.
If you haven’t explicitly mapped some sort of storage path into a running container, whatever Syncthing stores in that container is invisible from the outside, and not persisted on a container restart.
If Syncthing isn’t running in a container the situation is different, you’ll need to figure out what applies on your NAS.
On my Synologys I have the config of Syncthing e.g. in the follow location
/volume1/@appdata/syncthing/config.xml
and maybe similar is in the Asustor, I dont know. In this file the hidden folder must be defined.
Next information would be good, if you use nativ installation, a Asus specific installation as system package APK, a Docker installation or maybe furthers.