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I have a VPS server in the cloud that I use for wireguard. I got the idea to also use it to host a shared folder across my devices: Linux laptop and Android phone.

I started doing some research on this, and would welcome pointers.

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[โ€“] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's really down to where you want the files to live. Sure synching would provide easy redundancy with a copy of the files on every machine, but that 20GB of documents or whatever would effectively become 100gb of files if it's being synced to 5 different computers, eating up 20GB of space on every computer, meanwhile using a standard network share would give you a single centralized location with one copy of the data, then you just make backups according to whatever your backup scheme is.

[โ€“] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It really depends on what it is you're trying to share between machines.

I don't use syncthing but something that fulfils a similar function (git-annex). My Documents repo is set up in such a way that all instances of the repo try to have a copy of everything because documents are very important data and don't take much space. Other (larger) repos only try to have two or three independant copies; depending on how large and important their data is.