David Brownlee <a...@absd.org> writes: > +1 on unison working well, and very much +1 on multilateral sync > synching removals you may not want - I had a syncthing directory setup > with one node as Send only and the others as default. When I lost a > disk on one of the other nodes and brought it up without that disk it > happily propagated the removal of all those files to the other backup > nodes (not to the Send only master obviously). I wouldn't have minded > but it was filesystem with around 5TB of data so repropagating it took > a while :). Lesson learned - keep the other nodes as Receive only in > that setup (they still sync changes from the master among them), and > enabling file versioning :)
My impression is that syncthing tends to keep metadata and the data in different places, at least sometimes. I think that's a bug, as it can lead to the perception of deleted data. But, this is basically a "remember that synchthing is not a backup tool".
