… without using any variation of Syncthing.
My phone is usually on the same Wifi network as my PC, so some sort of auto-syncing via wifi would be great. Like how Immich syncs from the phone to my server, in an almost totally hands-off way.
What are the best non-Syncthing FOSS phone and PC file sync options these days?
Thanks!
ETA: Sorry, sorry, I should have explained: I no longer trust any variant of Syncthing. The wild chain of events last year left me completely questioning what was going on with that code base. I struggle with trust issues for FOSS software every so often and once I feel things have gone awry, I can’t go back again. Plus, I really want to know about what’s new and interesting right now.
Link to one conversation about Syncthing’s events, if you are out of the loop:
https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/@surfhosting/115674236291033568
I’ve used SyncThing for over a year from Graphene to, well, any computer I have. But I’ve never been able to work out: is it possible to set ST so that it doesn’t take up space on a device, like how cloud storage platforms do?
No, I currently use Syncthing to sync my documents and music folders between my devices. If there’s something else, like the clips I make when playing with friends, the computer automatically syncs them to my Seafile instance with their sync client.
That way I can easily share the folder and check it on my phone using the app. If you don’t encrypt the drive it will show up and be navigable in your files app, without taking space (at least if you use the stock gos files app)
Maybe set up an SMB share or something? I’m generally happy with syncthing, but every now and then I do just want to dump files off device. For that I keep a share running over Tailscale (Headscale soon™) and use that in a pinch.
Not really.
Resilio has a Selective Sync feature, where it keeps an index at each client, and you select which files to sync in the moment. Works very well, I use it to access (mostly) all my media files (but actually any file on my NAS).
I don’t replace Syncthing with it because it’s very memory intense (keeps the index in ram) and notably harder on battery than Syncthing.
But it works very well - it could replace Syncthing if you wanted.
No. For that you probably want some kind of cloud drive client like Nextcloud. Seems like it supports that scenario, but I’ve never used it and their Android app docs link is broken.
@djdarren @frongt That’s not how SyncThing is designed. It’s intended to be a full mirror.
I kind of emulate what you’re talking about with restic’s mount command. It’s a lot less intuitive than what you’d get from a cloud storage platform, but it’s Good Enough For Me. If you want to match cloud storage, you probably want nextcloud or seafile or something.
Yeah, I figured as much. I do have Nextcloud on my server, and probably should get around to shifting most of what’s in my SyncThing over to it.
Can’t mount networked filesystem’s in android, but you can use a file browser app to emulate the same thing.