Backing Up My Home Server Files - Setting Up Syncthing

I have seen great reviews from users using Syncthing so I decided to give it a try, and I am extremely pleased with its performance.

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[ILasaroff]

Thank you for making these videos! You really helped me to setup a dedicated truenas server in my storage room, with exactly 0 background in networking. This syncthing setup was the last step which allows me to remove all mechanical SSDs from our workstations in the office, to dump them in the NAS and to sync the boot drives of the PCs automagically! You are the man! 🤘

[blitzio]

Still helpful after all these years thanks man, this guide is helping me with my syncthing setup

[gbtgreybeardtech]

Thanks m8. I'm not running Syncthing, but I do love your tutorials. Now I am considering running it after such a nice mellow presentation.
Thanks, from outback NSW Australia.
James.

[bratbard]

Thanks! Other videos just weren’t explaining it well with yours, I now can use syncthing.

[maverickbonato]

I've always had issues with cloud based things like google photos, amazon photos or whatever on my phone, I never quite got them set up as I wanted them, this program is a life saver.
Literally my folder structure and everything is in my pc with all the changes I do on the phone appearing on the pc as well, I wish I knew about this program years ago man, so much wasted time trying to organize what I had. As for backups just copy paste everything on an external drive every month or so and for extreme cases you still have google photos. FOR ME, it's pretty much the perfect setup 😊👍🏻

[Ramekenas]

well, just stumbled upon your channel and seeing the quality of the videos i thought "great another high quality tech youtuber, with a tendency to splurge on homeservers ", then i saw the subscriber count, after seeing very little comments, just one phrase came to mind WTF?
Your following will skyrocket soon, stay motivated for a few months and you'll have a few hundred thousand subscribers and all that. Good luck

[PoeLemic]

Exquisite video. Some time back, I watched TechnoDadLife's video on this topic, and I was just realizing that I need a backup server. Then, this video clarifies to me how bad I need it now.

[deciodasilva]

This is a lot better and easier then nextcloud thanks man...

[Kessra]

It would be awesome if there would be an option to state that certain directories should use root priviledges to read files, i.e. to backup the whole /etc directory. The backup task fails for me as certain files, like the .stignore or .stfolder files can't be written and even after I add them manually and change the owner of those files and add those files to the .stignore file, the task fails as not all configuration files can be read by the "normal" user. I did enable the "Ignore Permissions" checkbox in the advanced settings though this didn't solve that issue also. Seems like I need to install this tool via root explicitely on all machines

[mixcocam]

My understanding was that Syncthing was not a great solution for backups. If you have an issue on your home server (your files get corrupted/other) the changes will be pushed to your backup. I would recommend setting up RSYNC with a CRONjob to back-up to your backup server.

[andycivil]

I like the versioning options! My nightmare is that you're editing a file, and the editor crashes, your file gets set to zero length. You go to fetch it from trash, but it's not there because it wasn't actually "deleted" per se. There's no point in a backup solution that /immediately/ copies your broken file to the backup! But this looks good, I will be installing soon.

[mirkoregina]

Hi, I have a distro based on DEBIAN Q4OS I need to connect 4 hard disks with windows and mac backups and I would like to create a server with raid sharing of all hard disks and including a continuous and incremental backup also of smartphones and ipads in the family ... I was thinking about nextcloud and openmediavault but something else would probably be missing to perfect everything and example the folder search on different file systems I forgot ... I also have nvidia shield which can act as a nas if it would be enough without paying plex .Advice? Thank you.

[Mevi]

Hey there. How does syncthing handle very large files? I ask as your use case with a home server suggests you might have experience of that.
I'm looking to sync large video files when collaborating with another youtuber, however all the tutorials I've watched demonstrate with small files.
Many thanks!

[timgoeke]

Great channel! Thanks for the detailed walk-through. For a more robust time machine style backup, what are your thoughts?

[NevaranUniverse]

What about using this for windows network sharing alternative?

[techuntangler]

Thanks! Superb video. Makes it really easy to understand. Looking forward to pushing the sync through tailscale network.

Any thoughts or videos on how to ensure that data is encrypted whilst it travels between two servers?

Again, very much appreciated!

[salvanation]

I did some tests with send only and recive only and if you delete a file it delets the file too on the send only side!.. you have to set the option 'ignore delete' in the advanced settings but I have read that this is a ugly hack and deprecated.. so you have to use versioning but thats not nice to look in the .stfolder for deleted files.. I'm not sure if Syncthing is good for backups

[theobarbosa]

Thanks for the video. Just a comment: You go from hardware directly to Syncthing. What O.S. did you use? How to configurate Raid to drives?

[UltimateArts]

Thanks for doing the advanced-addresses part! I was using the GUI IP and obviously it wouldn't work.

[kenneth_jensen]

Great guide for sync of files. But it isn't really a backup with e.g. versioning.
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 with two 5TB drives, using Rasberian OS and rsync to backup my Synology.
I choosed a Raspberry Pi 4 because of the power consumption 🙂