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Cake day: March 8th, 2024

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  • Syncthing-fork has been recommended over Syncthing for the last few years. That’s what I’ve been running for about that long with no issues. I like having access to a copy of the actual files on the NAS too which a borg backup doesn’t provide unless you do an additional borg mount. Syncthin-fork does other things too, light keeping a keepass database synced on devices. But yeah, nothing syncthing can do over a scheduled rsync script… I just have not found that to be as reliable on Android as it is in Linux.

    Syncthin-fork has never stopped working for me. I would notice because it also puts my pictures into a folder that gets read by immich and I often check immich to look at my photos. I run immich differently than intended where I don’t do the photo backups with it. I only use it as a gallery client on my existing organized directory structure of images. It only has read only access.



  • I like using syncthing. It syncs all my apps that are backed up with neobackup, my pictures, files etc. to my NAS. Then my NAS runs borg on that directory as well as all the other important NAS directories to make the legit backups.

    I have termux installed but I honestly rarely use it. Hate typing on the phone in the terminal… if I need to do it then I’ll just adb connect from my computer and do it from there on a real keyboard.






  • If you don’t mind using your phone then this is how mine is setup.

    I use Microsoft Lens on the phone to make the scans. The folder that Microsoft Lens outputs to is synced to the Paperless consume folder with Syncthing. So basically, all the scans that I take with Microsoft Lens go right into Paperless automatically.

    Even though I also have a printer/scanner, I find myself using my phone more often for convenience even if it does suffer some quality.