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What are you non-obvious, maybe strange usecases of Syncthing?

For example syncing the media library with your friend or maybe your entire /home/user folder between your PC and laptop?

I'd love to hear your ideas!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

I have a site to site VPN between my house and my mother's house. I keep a raspberry pi at her house with a 2TB drive running syncthing. My photo library and important documents sync to her house as an offsite backup in case my house ever burned to the ground.

as far as syncing files between PC and laptop, I would think ownCloud would be better suited for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ok, why syncthing and not rsync? Also, duplication should not be threated as backup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It can be if the off-site duplicate has automatic snapshots.

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