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Re: sync netbsd drive with Windows 10



David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> 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".


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