Syncing all the things

Posted Jul 21, 2021 18:25 UTC (Wed) by dilinger (subscriber, #2867)
In reply to: Syncing all the things by shane
Parent article: Syncing all the things

Interesting, I'm glad to hear that Nextcloud's Android support is solid. I've been planning to try it out to replace my current setup, which is Syncthing for phone pics/videos and Seafile for file sharing with my family. I'd only delayed because I was worried about php and scalability, but it sounds like both Owncloud and Nextcloud have replaced bits of slow php code with Go and Rust, respectively.

Syncing all the things

Posted Jul 21, 2021 20:13 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (1 responses)

Huh. Strange. I've been using Syncthing heavily for months now, including with encrypted folders, and haven't seen any problem. Nextcloud on the other hand eats my phone battery's contents for breakfast whenever I do something nontrivial.

Syncing all the things

Posted Aug 25, 2021 21:20 UTC (Wed) by dilinger (subscriber, #2867) [Link]

Perfect example today. Syncthing got an upgrade in f-droid, and I updated it yesterday on my phone. It was sitting around since then. No updates or changes on my laptop. Disk usage on my laptop is 95%. I take some pictures, come home, hours later - no sync. I restart both daemons - no sync. I finally fully shut down syncthing-gtk (after having clicked "restart daemon" earlier), and start it up again - it finally syncs.

This is a regular thing, except usually just restarting the daemon either on my phone or my laptop will make it realize that it should sync. I've got Nextcloud up and running in an LXC container, just need to set it up on my phone. I sure hope it behaves more reliably than this!