Transfer speeds are as good as with Resilio Sync when it sometimes worked. It is consuming 400 Mb of RAM vs about 8 Gb for Resilio Sync. Syncthing flawlessly keeps the same amount of files in sync with a twentieth (!) of the memory footprint. Maybe a tad more finicky to setup at first, but a joy to use. Upgrading the Synology to 8 Gb RAM and seeing Resilio Sync crash in the middle of indexing was the last straw. Before being close to dead, the updates were anyways irregular at best. Resilio Sync doesn't seem to be maintained anymore and was last updated to 2. If it wasn't for Arq backup, I would have lost some of my most important data such as FLAC tracks I purchased, accounting files and pictures. Cross your fingers so that indexing the other less powerful machines doesn't mess up with them. Delete it from the machine that's out of sync. In any case the recovering process is always the same: disconnect the folder from sharing with other peers.
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Sync issues could also sometimes occur between the two Mac clients, with more than enough RAM or CPU bandwidth to cover Resilio's humungous needs. Most of the time, when you realise something is not working with Resilio, it is too late, and you probably lost data. The folder structure would be intact, but files would be missing. When I finally got Resilio Sync to run again on the NAS, the internal index would be messed up, and big chunks of files would disappear from my Mac mini. The MacBook and the Mac mini would keep syncing but the NAS would stop syncing the Documents folders for instance, where all my accounting is. crash) silently and my NAS and Apple devices would get out of sync during days or weeks. On macOS it would cruise at 6 Gb (!), constantly trusting the top four memory consumers ranking in the activity monitor, next to the iOS simulator, Xcode and Safari (with sometimes 100+ tabs opened across several tab groups, so the RAM consumption of Safari is to be expected).īattery consumption was a disaster and Resilio Sync was the usual suspect in the macOS "Applications consuming significant energy" drop down. On both the remote Ubuntu server and the Synology, Resilio Sync would consume 90% off the available 8 Gb of RAM. This would usually only make things worse, as it would crash before being done indexing the files. I attempted to reinstall Resilio Sync, to configure it fresh half a dozen of times, both on the headless Ubuntu server and the Synology. So I upgraded to the max recommended of 8 Gb. It would constantly crash trying to run it on my Synology with the stock 4 Gb RAM. Resilio Sync will eat all your server's RAM. Resilio Sync is a *pain* to setup on a headless server, and I even had to write my own guide with very detailed steps to be able to reinstall it every time I would switch servers. Here's a summary of my experience after running this setup for 6 years:
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These files are code repositories and text files, binaries, movies, Flac files, images, loads of smart previews from Lightroom, pdfs. Yes, the ratio files-to-folder is a bit odd, and it seems that something's up with the Pictures folder. These represent 470 Gb, ~ 286 700 files, across 143 000 folders.
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Sync my Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music and Pictures folders between a Mac mini, a Synology, a MacBook Pro and a headless remote Ubuntu server. The setup evolved over the years but ended up as: In an an attempt to get back some control and privacy over my files, I've been using Resilio Sync Pro on Linux and Apple platforms since 2015.Īs I was researching this topic, Resilio Sync would often be recommended as an alternative to Syncthing in favour of its "better user experience" and the fact that it offers an iOS mobile client.
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