I hope this is the right place to ask this, but if not feel free to move wherever.
For some reason, when my debian server upgraded, it turns out the configuration directory moved from $HOME/config.xml to $HOME/.config/syncthing/config.xml along with all of the database and other extraneous information and it has been like this for probably around a month. All of the data is still on the server as it should normally be located, but none-the-less this situation feels a bit risky as I’m talking about most of my data.
So, my thought is to do a btrfs snapshot on both my server directories and various synced computer directories and then move the config with their associated database files.
Has anyone else dealt with this and have any general safety advice for protecting my data but restoring my original configuration as it was before the system upgrade? Any advice to prevent these types of surprises in the future?
Edit: Things I’m curious about are:
1 - Can I (should I) modify the xml file in any way to disable all of the folder syncs “pause” them?
2 - Is there some kind of “syncthing dryrun” I can run to check what would happen to these folders when unpaused?