Using a bridge between devices

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Hello,

I’ve set up syncthing on both my workstations to sync certain folders. Because the devices are rarely online at the same time, I have a VPS with syncthing in the middle which both devices sync with, something like this:

               encrypted               
 ┌──────┐       ┌──────┐      ┌──────┐ 
 │      ├──────►│      │◄─────┤      │ 
 │ PC 1 │       │ VPS  │      │ PC 2 │ 
 │      │◄──────┤      ├─────►│      │ 
 └──────┘       └──────┘      └──────┘

I often run into sync issues because of the asynchronous nature of this setup.

Does anyone have a similar setup that works reliably? I’m tempted to turn off the encryption because that seems to be causing most of the issues.

2

Certainly the asynchronous nature is not a problem. Encryption might be. Details on the issues might clarify.

3

I have 2 central nodes (local+remote) which connect all my other devices. Over the past year it worked reliable enough that I would call it almost stable. The main folders are encrypted and conflicts are rare. What happens more frequently are stale items like 0 byte files which can be annoying but are easy to fix in most cases.

With only 3 devices, however, this should not be a big problem. What are your main sync issues?