I am synching between 2 data pools on the same instance of unRAID and using 2 instances of Syncthing, Prod and Spare. I have a Media share tha sync w/ the following ignore patters:
$RECYCLE.BIN/
$RECYCLE.BIN/desktop.ini
!/eBooks
!/Halloween
!/Home Movies
!/Images
!/Misc
!/Movies
!/Movies 4K
!/Music
!/Music Videos
!/MusicKODI
!/Pictures_Old
!/TV Shows
!/Youtube
*
The directory I exclude is Media/Pictures, becuase I sync that from another source. This works fine and does not sync /Media/Pictures. All looks well with exceptio of Out of Sync on my spare instance, see below:
Even though I am excluding /Media/Pictures from the share folder of Media, but populating Media/Pictures from another process, Syncthing still sees that and thinks Media/Pictures is out of sync or is my logic incorrect?
It’s not entirely clear to me what your setup looks like. I understand that you’re using two different instances of Syncthing, Prod and Spare – please post with the Folders that are shared on those instances and how they’re configured, along with basics of their Syncthing peers.
Are any of these Folders set up as Send Only, or Receive Only?
Have you considered reconfiguring so that the subfolders under \Media are shared as different Syncthing shared Folders? This would keep Ignore Patterns from being needed to not sync /Media/Pictures.
Syncthing Prod is a ZFS Pool (Data) where my production data and shares are located.
Syncthing-2 Spare is a ZFS pool (Data_Backup) where I sync to, Send only and recieve only, Prod (Send) and Spare (Recive).
In addition, I have another task, that syncs from another share, /Media/OneDrive/Pictures to /Media/Pictures on Data ZFS Pool. That’s why I exclude the initial task not to sync Media/Pictures, because is occurring from an additional sync task.
All seems to be working, but I don’t understand why I see Out of Sync:
Your Media Folder is set to “Send Only” on one side, and I expect the “unRAID-Prod-2” side, where you’re seeing Out Of Sync Items, is set to “Receive Only.”
If anything changes on the Receive Only side through some non-Syncthing mechanism, that Folder’s Local State no longer matches the Global State. Thus showing Out of Sync items.
You are correct and that is what I assumed. The only folder that is not in scope is the Media/Pictures but being populated by another process. So, to conclude, regardless of the transfer policy, the folder Media will always be out of sync, which is fine. I was just assuming if I exclude Media/Pictures, syncthing would ignore and show completed.
