Synchronised Home Directory / Workspace

[WebSearchingPro]

I've had better luck with btsync than sshfs, should be the other way around, no?

The nice thing about btsync is the P2P factor, slowly adding more devices makes it collectively faster and more robust.

 

[Francisco]

I know I'm a terrible person for necro'ing this thread but hopefully the mods don't smite me.

Still on topic, has anyone played with syncthing?

It looks like it addresses the permission syncing as well as other things up for discussion.

Francisco

 

[BrianHarrison]

In my experience trying to work on an active remote disk is painful even over a LAN.  Better to work locally and sync on demand, using rsync or git depending on the data.

That's my experience too, even with <1ms network latency. Local sync is necessary.

 

[splitice]

Still using btsync currently for package transfer between remote server.

GlusterFS internally and in one case within the same country (Ramnode <-> DO AMS2)

And rsync to keep some supporting utilities in sync (monitor scripts)

I really want to play with s3fs but not prepared to leap into Amazons world yet.

 

[drmike]

Still on topic, has anyone played with syncthing?

Currently trying a basket of these solutions.

Syncthing is on the list.

Have Seafile up and going and it's rather cool  Little different and in place challenging - like good luck as-is mirroring say /home/yourdirectory in whole.  My experience at least... But it works fine mirroring say /home/username/Desktop and related other major spots.

Tested on LAN and no pesky Apache or Nginx or whatever web configuration which I just detest.  It does have a web interface built in and a slew of clients for everything major:

http://seafile.com/en/download/

 

[k0nsl]

Ya, I'm using Syncthing for a few thing and am very satisfied with it. Easy to setup and work with, all very smooth.

I haven't run into any issues yet, either. It just works

I know I'm a terrible person for necro'ing this thread but hopefully the mods don't smite me.

Still on topic, has anyone played with syncthing?

It looks like it addresses the permission syncing as well as other things up for discussion.

Francisco

 

[Francisco]

Ya, I'm using Syncthing for a few thing and am very satisfied with it. Easy to setup and work with, all very smooth.

I haven't run into any issues yet, either. It just works

Linux permissions work without issue?

Francisco

 

[k0nsl]

To tell you the truth, I have not ran into any issues with permissions. But my main purpose of use is to shuffle data to some backup server which has Syncthing running and connected to one of the boxes here at home, like this:

Makes for easy management. I'm thinking about doing something more useful with it, soon. Just have to evaluate it some more to see if it would be a good idea: for example, let it deal with local cPanel/WHM backups. Not sure yet.

But I like it and it works great so far

Linux permissions work without issue?

Francisco

 

[drmike]

We should get some tutorials constructed - even if short cliff notes versions for the various file replication tools at play here (BTSync, Syncthing, Seafile, etc.).

Anyone have such for BTSync before I waste 2 hours searching and failing?

 

[splitice]

@k0nsl Probably QQ's.

Can the web UI be disabled with syncthing? Are the logs usefull though? CLI interface?

Can the network address & ports be specifically bound?

 

[k0nsl]

As for ports, yes - those can be explicitly set in the configuration file. It's very straightforward.

In the configuration the Web GUI can be disabled:



<gui enabled="true" tls="true">
    <address>0.0.0.0:8080</address>
</gui>

@k0nsl Probably QQ's.

Can the web UI be disabled with syncthing? Are the logs usefull though? CLI interface?

Can the network address & ports be specifically bound?