On the NAS, I have SyncThing’s history feature switched off for most of those shared folders (especially the git ones, where it would be more hindrance than help), A notable exception is my photo inbox folder (where I sort and cull photos), that keeps local history on my iMac.Īs a safety net, I rely on Time Machine, the Synology’s #recycle folder and the fact that the entire NAS backs up to Azure daily.Ĭonsidering that I very seldom needed to use Dropbox’s 30-day history, I think that’s good enough, although (to be fair) Dropbox’s UI makes recovery a lot easier.
So as long as the NAS is on, any machine I log on to is sure to have a fresh copy of everything synced from it. This instance both re-publishes what’s left of my Dropbox folder (so that I can have a small subset of files available on iOS) and keeps a Synology-side mirror of a few specific folders (essentially this site, a couple of other large, standalone projects and a Development folder with all my active git repositories). Running an instance per user seems entirely feasible for 4-5 people, but right now I’m only doing it for myself (and since we all have OneDrive at home, that is likely to be sufficient).
#Github for mac with dropbox full#
To ensure I have full control in terms of folder isolation and networking configuration, I am running a dedicated SyncThing Docker container ( this one, with the usual linuxserver.io trimmings 1) under my Synology UID. Then I removed Dropbox from all my Macs, and installed SyncThing on the Synology–but not using the “standard” Synology SyncThing package. This freed up my iMac from doing the heavy lifting and made the migration effectively instant, although I did have to wait another couple of days for everything to propagate across (and every time I fired up another machine OneDrive spent a good while churning through the changes, which is one of its weak points). Like originally planned, I leveraged Synology’s Cloud Sync feature to migrate things across–I added Dropbox and OneDrive to my user account on my Synology DS1019+, waited a couple of days until it had downloaded everything, then moved files across inside my user account from one folder to the other. It’s been nearly two months now since I began the process of switching away from Dropbox and onto a combination of SyncThing and OneDrive and I’m overdue a status report of some kind, so here goes.
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