 So I had to do a follow-up video on Sync Thing. So I've been running Sync Thing for about a year. And well, maybe a little longer than a year. I did a video about 10, 11 months ago on it. And I want to do a follow-up because sometimes people ask the question, are you still using it? The answer is yes. And it's also I'm using it more. So here's what's happened. So I was using it and it was working great. And then I said, let's expand what I'm doing with it. This became a great solution for backing up servers and a few other things. And I said, well, let's just let Sync Thing handle it. So I used to have the off-site backups that are created by the servers automatically going to two locations after they backed up. And I said, well, let's just let Sync Thing handle that because it's got such a great reputation for it. So here's the layout of our network and how it works. We have the office servers. And they're all running on a virtual stack. So I only have one computer showing here, but it's a multiple virtual machines. Not real relevant, but the design, it is kept as simple. I'm not the best at drawing these diagrams and they take time. The office servers each have SSH keys to a user directory on the free NAS that goes into Sync Thing. So what they do is each of the databases create a backup and they do it hourly during our business hours. They create backups to their database encrypt them with PGP key, then they drop them over here on the free NAS server. And then the free NAS server running Sync Thing synchronizes with my home server. That's my off-site backup. Me excuse to have a server at the house as well. So they're doing a constant sync. And I have it re-scanning and checking every 15 minutes to see if there's new files. Sync Thing actually wants to sync a little bit faster than that, but it didn't need to chew up any extra traffic because hourly backups, 15 minute check for files, they land over here pretty quick. And the backups are reasonably small, so this happens pretty fast. Now, all the other business files we have, we have a couple of computers, this is our office here and this is Tom's house. So we have a couple of office computers that are connecting to it. And that syncs up all of our business documents and general things we're doing, like accounting and spreadsheets and all the BS that you gotta have for having a business. And this allows me and Marvin to share files very easily in real time. And because these are both desktops here, there's no external access to it and this external access is restricted via the firewall between the home server through an encrypted tunnel. So we keep in sync here. Then at home, in case I need to access some of those documents, those documents are also synced up across here and goes back to my house and if I want on my laptop. Now I don't have my laptop syncing to here because it's much faster to sync local copies of the files right to my computer while it's at home. I mostly use my laptop at home as well. So this keeps a copy of all those files here on my laptop, here on the server in which I get them at high speed and then of course, they're backed up between these locations. Now, there's a couple of risks with syncing or any type of file system synchronization tools because if something bad happens to a file, right away it happens to all revisions of the file. So this is how I mitigate that risk. Here's my free NAS box and this is the folder that everything goes into. So it's the Jupyter volume syncing data and I have it every day I create a snapshot of it. And when it's doing this, here's all the snapshots that I can jump back to that is auto-created and if you notice in here it's keeping them for 30 days. So I always have a lot of snapshots at the ready that I can just restore to. So something catastrophic happened that cascaded through all of this that would easily be remedied by just rolling back to a snapshot. So if I deleted all the files on one computer, yes, it would cascade, delete across the others or fill them up with bad data but I've got 30 days of snapshots I can just roll back to as needed using free NAS. One of the big advantages of ZFS keeps it really simple. Now here's it actually working. You can see it scanning. So this is the free NAS box and it's like the graphics files I updated to YouTube template. So it syncs that. And now I sync offsite. Let's go back to my home box. I sync the graphics files. So you'll see the same file name that says last one was updated there. And there's the server backups in there. But then when it gets to my computer at home, it's only syncing the business files and graphics. I don't need the server backups also copied to my laptop. Now I also have this folder called tom backup. And what I do is occasionally take entire snapshots of my home drive. Not very often cause not much changes on it but that snapshot of my home drive is a snap in time of how it looked. I do that to get all the random files and config files that it may be changed. I run that kind of as needed. It backs up all kinds of data that's mostly static. So it doesn't need, I don't run that all the time. So this one's on a really low interval so it's not re-going through all the files on there especially due to the size of the file. So there's 122 gigs and 63,000 files in there. So overall what I'm syncing at home is about 133 gig and 65,000 files. But something I don't sync is offsite is my videos. This syncs with my computer. There's just another 115 gigs and actually I just reduced it by archiving a lot of stuff. I'm so not too sure what to do with the archives. Currently I just store them on a pair of separate hard drives cause I'm not sure what to do with all the originals. I do have all my YouTube videos. I haven't really decided yet. I keep all the processed ones which is down to 115 gigs but it's all the source and a b-roll that you create. So if I shoot a video there may be several files that are very large of video. I only needed a few minute clip out of all of them so I have a compiled finished version that gets uploaded to YouTube and I keep one local copy of the finished material. But yeah, what to do with all the other stuff it adds up really quick so occasionally I just offload it to a couple drives. And a pair of them because these drives are not plugged in or idle, not at all on. So I'm afraid that one day I'll turn them on and that will stop coming on so that I have two of them to help try and mitigate the risk. But I don't still have to do with all the data cause it's gathering up anyways. So I keep this synced with my computer here and here's the graphics one, oops sorry, and the video one. So as I'm updating videos on my computer and downloading them it's right away backing them up. Now I thought about putting a rate array in my computer and I said well I have a rate array sitting in the back office here and they sync rather quickly so as soon as I'm dropping files on my computer it's automatically taking them over to the free NAS and throwing them on that rate array so there's a copy on my computer and there's a copy on free NAS. Once again, it falls into some of the files that I'm revising and doing a revisioning on which does take up some space but it also lets me if I screw up a video file go backwards, I can pull it off of the free NAS box by restoring from a snapshot if needed. So I am still using syncing, it's still working absolutely wonderful and syncing everything. I don't really have any issues with it. It works really well, it's not too taxing on the computer or the system. And it's a great way to keep just everything completely up to date on these. It's an open source alternative to drop box file syncing but I think it's a little bit better in some ways because you control all the data, you control all syncing, revisionings and all the features of it. So if you haven't watched my other syncing video you wanna know some of the details about it. They've made improvements and performance to it but in features it seems fairly the same a year later but it works so much better. It actually keeps taking less memory and less processing power to do the same thing with more data. So heads off to the syncing team and how effective they are at programming all this but yeah I just wanna do this follow up video to say yes I'm still using it, yes it still works great and I still think it's a great solution if you're looking to synchronize files between even offsite or sharing with a friend or however you wanna do it if you're looking for an open source alternative to drop box. Once again if you like the content here like and subscribe. I'm gonna be doing some more follow up videos on some of the ones I did because I like to cover some of the I'm still using the tech or what I think of the same of this technology that I was excited about when I did the video am I still excited about it later? I think that's important or when there's feature changes to it. All right thanks again for watching.