On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:36:02PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
I know this has already been covered, but there's an interesting blog here about the change from syncthing to Pulse: https://pulse-forum.ind.ie/t/introducing-pulse-and-ind-ie/1074
Summary: syncthing (the pre-existing FOSS project which provides P2P sync on your own kit) is being used by ind.ie (and rebranded by them as Pulse), and they are providing development resources. The stated motive behind ind.ie is "independent technology, as in independent from being spied on by various entities", ie a goal that many here will sympathise with.
[Still can't get it to work properly though, but that's probably just me.]
I've been looking into syncthing a bit too as I would quite like to synchronise (as opposed to back up) a few things between some of my systems. However it does seem a bit naive, at least in the way it tells you about itself:-
There's no mention at all of how frequently things are synchronised, at least not in any of the top level stuff I glanced through. I guess the information must be in there somewhere but it's a bit fundamental, if it synchronises within seconds it's a different tool from one that synchronises hourly or daily.
The way it works is sort of backwards, I don't want to have to put things into a directory that gets synchronised. I want to be able to tell the tool to synchronise existing dirctories. Yes, I could maybe use symbolic links but that then introduces all sorts of inter-system problems.