 All right, I want to kind of give an overview of how I'm using Sync thing here Now before I dived into sync thing and started doing this review I've actually used it now for about 30 days or so and I haven't had any problems I'm using it live on my company files and I kind of came up with a method that I liked That's worked really well that I feel is both secure and robust Because syncing is not exactly a backup tool, but it is a way you can synchronize files Now what's important to me is that when I go home and if I'm working on a project that that project is completely Synchronized with my laptop. So if I'm at work I can work on a file and easily get it there Now I was using own cloud to facilitate this for a while This is my current setup for sync thing Basically, I have my office computer the free NAS the interwebs in between home Linux box and my laptop now The ways to set up my office computer syncs to the free NAS box Then the free NAS box syncs to the home Linux box because that way I have real time synchronization off-site And then my laptop will sync to the home Linux box mostly because it's at home But when it's not at home it goes out to the internet and syncs to the home Linux box That way it always has a fresh copy when it's on there And because the synchronization is going on between free NAS and my home Linux box I don't need my computer to then pull the same files down again It'll look locally and find my computer find my home Linux server and pull the files down really fast that way Especially if I have a lot of big graphics files that I'm working on now enough of my crew drawings there I'm actually using sync thing and I'm using the sync thing GTK version. This is pretty cool It's slick. It's got a cool interface on it And it's just a front end for it still runs the same tools in the background It just gives you this kind of pretty interface, which is a cut-down version of the web interface But just easy for open up web browser and it has a few options in here that let me start things Run it on startup set the limits makes things just kind of convenient without going in there If I had a bunch of stuff and I just wanted to slow it down I can really quickly set a rate limit You don't have to use this like I said It's just kind of handy and adds a few other little things plus so you hit it Just those open a web web interface and right here so with the UI settings if you want to Modify what kind of notifications you get if any and things like that. So definitely a pretty cool Utility here and it likes you so you can add some extra variables to it if you want I'm just using it digitally at stock other than telling it to run at startup and everything else from here I will just go to the web interface, but this is pretty handy tool So here it is. I've got my graphics videos and system business files, which total 3843 files and about 40 gigs with the files now with sync thing I found that if I tried to do Everything on here it got a little intensive looking for changes I'm not sure what the upper limit is but I didn't want anything that taxed my computer So I just took the the files that I use all the time Which is graphics my video edits for YouTube and my business files things that are important that I care about keeping Synchronized, but I don't actually synchronize the videos off-site because they're just too big But I need them real-time backed up as I'm creating them at least one extra copy of them in case one of my hard drives fail in my computer so With that being said I have a whole another backup system able to talk about another time It's just a simple r-sync For all my files because out of all of the gigs of files I have most of them don't change very often just archives of things that I don't want to lose So here it is on my local computer and here it is on the free NAS box Now the free NAS box as I said syncs from here. We have this other one called the QB servers This is just some testing I did with a another system I must see how it worked on windows and I don't run any windows machines So I set up for real-time synchronization on a QuickBooks terminal server with a lot of users And a decent amount of data about 90 gigs worth the data and it works awesome It's been really cool because now they have real-time backups on there. I still have another backup system But it's kind of nice to have a real-time backup So it's constantly keeping revisions of everything and it taxes this machine a little more But all together with 18,000 files on here in sync the CPU utilization generally sits really really low And right now the RAM utilization is a hundred and twenty three megs. So it's it's pretty scalable I mean we said total with 138 gigs. We're still only using a hundred twenty three megs of memory Now here's my home box. Now my home box has an extra computer on here So I sync it to my HP laptop We're gonna go ahead and edit this here now locally it looks for this and it finds it of my local IP address when I'm home IPv6 is at home. So it also does that type of discovery, but I actually have it set to Dynamic that's because my laptop wanders around And my laptop has the specific TCP URL port statically for my home now The way that works is because I'm not using any of their discovery servers I didn't want this to be set up with a noisy protocol that runs out and discovers and is always looking I have each one of these boxes statically pointed So if we edit the free NAS box locally here, it's all using default ports But I have it specifically TCP 192.1683.4, which is my free NAS box and then I have it shows us think this so instead of using any of the Discovery none of that because I'm pointing each one of these directly It also is nice because instead of them finding and discovering each other They instantly lock on as soon as each system starts up Now the same thing goes for here. I'm gonna obscure the details, but I will tell you that the This goes to TCP blah blah blah a domain DNS entry. I have just for my home to keep that in sync So that being said this syncs up with this is the free NAS box going in syncing up with that So the next thing I do because free NAS not being a backup utility and a reason they remind you that if Something happens on one node and the other nodes aren't set to master actually allow changes And for example, I want to allow changes if I edit something on my laptop or I edit something on my desktop I want the changes to synchronize between there now. What if something catastrophic happens? I am using in each of these the versioning So I do have staggered versioning which is going to keep versions of the files But I see that'd be really difficult if something catastrophic happens Oh, let's say if somehow magically I got crypto Lockard or just deleted all of my files off one of the nodes The delete would be cascaded through the entire system So then I'm using free NAS, and I'm using snapshots. I do one a day And if you're not familiar with the way ZFS works ZFS allows you to have snapshots And what these snapshots do is I can quickly Disclone or roll back To a previous snapshot So if I roll it back to a previous snapshot then the whole array just jumps backwards to that now It's kind of a neat feature So if one of the nodes somehow deleted a whole group of files I could go right to there hit the snapshot and because it would update in free NAS It would then push the files all the way back to the other machines So it's kind of another added layer that I have on here now I am doing complete snapshotting with our sync with my other backups But that's really working well for me doing it this way. I feel pretty confident with that along with my Our sync backups kind of like I call cold storage that if anything catastrophic happened to one node I could easily recover from it without having to go to my cold storage backups And this has been working like I said pretty good. It's not really had any problems on my home box here It's using only 39 megs ram for the 1677 files because I only synchronized business files and graphics Because it's just too data-intensive for my bandwidth to try to synchronize videos because every time I produce these videos You're talking about three or four hundred megs at a time Sometimes even gigs if it's a large video project that I've got in there So I just have that synchronized locally going from here over to Over from here over to the free NAS sync thing box now It's worked really well on free BSD and this I'm also impressed with how well it's worked on the Windows server is a server 2012 And it's backing up everything on there now that is that to master that way any changes that may occur on the free NAS box I didn't want to accidentally get pushed up to the server But like said it has a secondary backup. This is just my general setup for using sync thing and Kind of showing a little bit of scalability of it I mean 138 gigs in sync. It's hardly taxed in the CPU at all and it's working really well so if you have any questions or suggestions for improvement if you like the content like and subscribe and Please leave some comments below if you had questions about this or saying, you know I'm doing it wrong or you think there's a better way to do it Or maybe this works for you and you've had some good experience with sync thing. Thanks