I am shocked how many ppl think synchronization like syncthing act as a backup.
No synchronisation is not a backup. If you accidentally delete the database and it syncs across all devices then the database is gone. If something is broken and overrides multiple times then the history if it is enabled is also gone.
Pls use proper backup methods to backup your database.
Edit: I sync my database also with syncthing across devices. But to back it up i have on multiple clients system backups running that include the database.
So, when you activate simple versioning, and keep the last 20 Versions, then an error occurs (or malicious actor) and overrides the file 20 times. Then the simple versioning is gone.
Yes with the correct setup you could probably backup via syncthing BUT no one in the comments ellaboborated and mostly just says “i sync to multiple devices via syncthing”
Yeah, syncing with default settings is a bad idea for backup, but it’s better than nothing.
A more robust set up, while not foolproof, is to set history to keep all copies for 30 days, not a fixed amount of files. It’s also important to enable conflict detection so if the file was changed on two devices in between sync it keeps both copies (and cross-syncs them).
I am shocked how many ppl think synchronization like syncthing act as a backup.
No synchronisation is not a backup. If you accidentally delete the database and it syncs across all devices then the database is gone. If something is broken and overrides multiple times then the history if it is enabled is also gone.
Pls use proper backup methods to backup your database.
Edit: I sync my database also with syncthing across devices. But to back it up i have on multiple clients system backups running that include the database.
Syncthing can store multiple versions of things…
So, when you activate simple versioning, and keep the last 20 Versions, then an error occurs (or malicious actor) and overrides the file 20 times. Then the simple versioning is gone.
Yes with the correct setup you could probably backup via syncthing BUT no one in the comments ellaboborated and mostly just says “i sync to multiple devices via syncthing”
Yeah, syncing with default settings is a bad idea for backup, but it’s better than nothing.
A more robust set up, while not foolproof, is to set history to keep all copies for 30 days, not a fixed amount of files. It’s also important to enable conflict detection so if the file was changed on two devices in between sync it keeps both copies (and cross-syncs them).
That’s not my experience, at least with MEGASync.