Resilio Sync started as btsync and went commercial - then it was forked as SyncThing - so essentially SyncThing is Resilio Sync without the privacy issues.
First, apologies if I shouldn’t have posted here.
Secondly, I’ll have a look at syncthing, though it is not available for iOS (though ther’s is an app in iOS that uses it.).
I’ll check with resilio support (I already have it on 3 other devices, 2 x iOS.and 1 Windows which I hopefully convert it soon to Manjaro)
Actually I kept trying and reading, what I did was mainly (copy/Paste from Konsole some of the output during installation):
to reload system systemd modules: systemctl daemon-reload
to start rslsync manually: systemctl start rslsync
to autostart rslsync on system start: systemctl enable rslsync
Execute:
to reload user systemd modules: systemctl --user daemon-reload
to start rslsync manually: systemctl --user start rslsync
to autostart rslsync on user login: systemctl --user enable rslsync
Didnt work:
User instance MUST be configured before use. To perform configuration,
install rslsync-autoconfig package or follow manual configuration steps:
1. Copy /etc/rslsync/rslsync.conf to ~/.config/rslsync/rslsync.conf for
the user you wish to configure rslsync:
mkdir -p ~/.config/rslsync
cp /etc/rslsync.conf ~/.config/rslsync/rslsync.conf
2. Replace user-specific references with the appropriate information,
including the following settings:
- storage_path
- pid_file
- webui.listen
- webui.login
- webui.password
3. Make sure folder you specified as storage_path and folder where pid_file will
be located both exist in the filesystem, since rslsync will not create it for you.
and some other tweaks from here and there.
It is working now (sort of), still indexing files, but I can’t see any peers yet though they are connected!
I’ll follow up and keep you posted.
Thank you.
EDIT
Apologies for replying to myself. I’m new here! Sorry!
A few things I don’t understand.
it appears to me it finished sync but says “Not synced yet”
there are no peers
The way I added the folder was through a key not a link that I got from another peer my iPhone. When Added the key here it gave me the folder name exactly as on other peers.
On this laptop when I try share the folder it gives me the same key. So I believe I didn’t initially put a wrong key.
Why not synced yet? Why no peers?
UPDATE
To update you as I promised.
It seems to be a bug in Resilio.
I removed the folder then added it via link (not key as before).
Once added I saw other pears instantly!
Thanks a lot linux-aarhus for mentioning syncthing
Just to update you what happened since then.
I played a while with resilio, (I noticed my laptop was not that responsive -worse than old windows actually - as before with resilio).
for some reason I couldn’t reboot, tried to fix, no way! So, I reinstalled. didn’t install resilio, laptop was responsive and perfect.
I installed syncthing on this laptop and on the other one running windows. Made both run sync upon boot.
I still have resilio on other laptop and both iOS devices (no syncthing for iOS, only payable app, PLUS resilio allows for selective sync and on the windows laptop I have 1TB external USB)
So, now, and thanks to syncthing I really have my own 1TB cloud that I can access from any of the laptops, any of the 2 iOS)