Re: [tlug] Tuesday at THS: "Sync and share your data with Syncthing"?

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi all,


On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:
> This Tokyo Hackerspace meetup might be of interest to folks here:
>
>     Are you using Dropbox, Google drive or other proprietary sync or cloud
>     services to store and access your data ? What if you could replace
>     them with something open, trustworthy and decentralized ?
>
>     Syncthing is such an alternative. This open source client can securely
>     share and sync data between devices without it being stored on a 3rd
>     party provider.
>       - Synchronize file between your laptop, desktop and mobile device
>       - Share file securely with a group of people


For what it's worth, we've recently started using OwnCloud at work and
it seems to be ok.  Certainly nice to have an alternative to Dropbox.
But we had been using various brands of NAS', which usually shipped
with their own proprietary software for file synchronization.  It did
get the job done, but when the NAS model gets old, support drops.
Certainly good to have an alternative to this, as well, running on an
Ubuntu-based server.

Perhaps I'll look into Syncthing some day to see what it's about.
Thanks for mentioning it!

Ray