I think i last used Syncthing around 2019 in both business and personal projects … whats new?
I lost a lot of data and i swear Syncthing didnt even recognise a dying 7200rpm 6TB HDD… my own fault for not having it in RAID or some other solution but life happened.
Ive been out of the technology scene for a while, Proxmox is new, Docker is new, ESXi isnt open source no more…?
What else did I miss anymor enew software or the like i or anyone else should know about? [Strictly open source please]
Since I found Syncthing a few years back, I stopped using Unison. I have never looked back.
It seems you did not know then, and maybe still don’t realize: A synchronized copy (regardless if the tech used is Syncthing, RAID or something else) is NOT a backup. You experienced that first hand. Ransomware is another example: When ransomware encrypts your files on ONE device, those will automatically be synched to your other devices.
I started using Syncthing in 2019, so I can’t speak of what had been before that time. I can say thought that for the first 2-3 years, I did experience quite a few issues, many smaller and some more serious. The developers, however, fixed the vast majority of them very quickly.
After that, for the last 2-3 years, my experience with Syncthing has been stellar. Sure, there may be some quirks here and there, but when it comes to the main function, which is real-time synchronisation, it just works.
All in all, I’d suggest to simply install the current version of Syncthing and try it out. The overall process and the GUI haven’t actually changed much, so if you remember it from back then, I think you should feel right at home.
However, as has already been mentioned, I’d also strongly suggest to have a proper backup before doing any experiments with your actual data. You may also want to enable file versioning inside Syncthing as yet another line of defence.
Syncthing 2.0 beta has been released. 2.0 clears old files from the database after 6 months. This will prevent the database from continuously growing when a folder gets smaller. The database is also being changed from LevelDB to SQLite. None of these changes are evident on first glance, but all are making Syncthing better.
