Configuring SyncThing Untrusted (Encrypted) Devices

Open Source File Sync: Getting Started Tutorial With Syncthing on Windows & Linux

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⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
0:00 Synthing Intro
3:24 Setup prerequisites
5:15 Adding untrusted devices
9:48 Untrusted Device Data Encryption
12:42 Adding another trusted node
17:17 Password Config Documentation

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Open Source File Sync: Getting Started Tutorial With Syncthing on Windows & Linux


⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
0:00 Synthing Intro
3:24 Setup prerequisites
5:15 Adding untrusted devices
9:48 Untrusted Device Data Encryption
12:42 Adding another trusted node
17:17 Password Config Documentation

[alexk]

I'm so glad to be subscribed to your channel. I've been happily using Syncthing for more than 5 years now and I'm pretty sure this new feature would pass me by if it wasn't for this video. Keep up the great work.

[drumpfall]

I've been waiting for this for years. Thanks.

[АПологетТВ]

BTW, I already found the practical use of this new feature. I recently brought my old HDD to my local church and put it into their own backup server (that already had Syncthing installed for backing up church staff PCs). Then I configured it as untrusted Syncthing node and implemented a reliable encrypted off-site backup of my most important data from my home Synology server to my church Syncthing node :)

[FirstLast-zzcn]

Great video! One thing that is missing is how would we make use of the data on the untrusted device, if our trusted one is lost or damaged. How would we restore(decrypt) the data...

[ChaceBonanno]

So the folder gets synced to the untrusted device but the folders encrypted on that one?

Can I use this is to sync a folder in my Google Drive folder but encrypted, so that those files are backed up on my Google Drive but only an encrypted version, yet still synced?

[edwinrosales]

Great feature and great video! Much appreciated!

[succubiuseisspin]

This would be a nice way to sync all your backup-to-disk files to the cloud as a disaster recovery plan. All you need to get it back is the password and in the meantime you can be sure that nobody else can access your data.

[richardwatkins]

great video as ever Lawrence and great tool for the toolkit

[gnul]

Passwords usually aren't secure, they should get rid of the them, it's not needed, they should just generate a key per untrusted node per directory and share that keys with all trusted devices which have the directory unencrypted, so they can access the data on untrusted devices as well. No user interaction needed and much more secure.

[jeffluo]

Is there a way to sync my OneNote content across devices with Syncthing and ditch the Microsoft server?

[BrazenNL]

Could you make a video about what to do on the UDMP? I know how to port forward, but what is the safest way to do so?

[davidespada]

can we use SyncThing with Google drive i just want to backup stuff to GDrive nothing fancy

[ivanjuarez]

Dumb question what is the software he is using for the diagram?

[mohamedatef]

Hello tom, thanks for demo,
-i have question about encryption so its safe to use it for 2 site sync i men not cloud it will be safe ?!
- and can i change port of gui or any port for best bracts
?

[mariuszkrynsky]

I forgot my password to gui syncthing on my PC. Is anyone knows how to reset it.

[xFrozenxSnowx]

Would this be a good solution to send offsite backups easily to the remote location and not worry about encrypting it yourself? I understand there is a risk of ransomware encrypting the source syncthing files thereby destroying the offsite backup. Just trying to see what is a good solution to run to backup important files between friends' servers but are easy to manage and doesn't give access to other people's files

[alkeryn]

if you were to manually delete the encrypted file, would that delete it from the trusted nodes ?

[cal]

I'm a little late to the party but I am considering SyncThing for Synology<->Android syncing. A problem I have run into with other syncing solutions is that the Android device loses date & time metadata. I.e. The date from Windows is lost and Android shows the date/time of the transfer. If this true with SyncThing?

[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.