Remirus

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  1. mr.canada, if your OS and file system send notifications that files were changed then increasing "folder_rescan_interval" will expand your harddrive lifetime. You can set it to 1 week, 1 month or even higher. If Sync receives notifications it doesn't matter how often Sync rescans folders, it's just a spare way for Sync to know that all files are up to date. Because if you add some smb-share into Sync and files are updated there there is a chance that Sync won't know about it (because it might use SMB 2.0 or older protocol). Even if you set it to 68 years Sync will check all your folders again when you restart it.

  2. digitalis99, Sync uses notifications on linux via inotify when OS supports it. With that Sync receives information that something happened with files and it indexes only those files and download/upload only those files. With that feature you can set folder_rescan_interval to 1 week or even higher and it will increase lifetime of your hdd/ssd.

  3. benwiggy, you can check it in the Sync:

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    Usually Sync indexes folders when you start it or after some time to make sure that all files are up-to-date. If you don't use network shared folders in the Sync you can open Sync preferences => Advanced => Power user preferences and increase folder_rescan_interval from 600 (which is 10 minutes) to 18000 (which is 5 hours) or even more. If that doesn't help please send us logs.

     

  4. ph3lix, there is a way to force Sync to forget about all peers. To do that open Sync preferences => Advanced => Power user preferences and set "peer_expiration_days to 0. Wait 10-15 seconds then return previous value (7). After that Sync should forget about all peers and try to connect with them again. Because only predefined hosts activated it should try only predefined hosts. You need to do that on all peers then Server-B, PC-A, PC-B won't try to connect to Server-A.

  5. ph3lix, there are three ways how to do that.

    First should always work but you need to do it manually every time: pause folder on PC-A and PC-B peer and let Server-A and Server-B to exchange the data, then unpause folder on PC-A and PC-B peer and pause on the Server-A.

    Another way is to use predefined hosts or use speed limits. For example if PC-A and PC-B are located in one network and Server-A and Server-B are located in another network then servers synchronize with computers via internet. You can open Sync preferences => Advanced => Power user preferences and make sure that "rate_limit_local_peers" option is disabled. After that you can set upload or download limitation. It will work only if there are no other devices.

    Third way is to use predefined hosts. If Server-A is able to discover only Server-B it won't transfer data to another peers. So you need to disable tracker and relay server in the folder preferences, make sure that "Search LAN" option is activated and input IP address and listening port of Server-B. To open folder preferences right-click on the folder in the Sync.

  6. g3blv, yes you can setup it like this. The easiest way for that would be:

    1. Create encrypted folder on some computer.

    2. Share that folder with your phone with read-write key and choose your folder location.

    3. Remove encrypted folder from the computer if you want, in that case you need to record the encrypted key.

    4. Share the folder with one device via read-only key and with another device via encrypted key.

  7. israel israeli, Sync doesn't ask root permissions. But if you have root access there is a way to add /data/ folder.

    To do that give 777 permissions to /data (or at least rwx permissions for "others") then try to pickup that folder choosing "internal memory" while adding the folder.

    Please note that you need to give read-write permissions (or at least read permissions) for all folders which you want to synchronize in data. If you give read-write permissions to /data/data you might encounter an issue when Sync consumes too much RAM after you launch it because in that case Sync would constantly scan and upload sync.log file and other it's own system files.