Today there are many options to synchronize our information with our different devices (desktop, laptop, Tablet, smartphone) which are the famous cloud services. And even though they have very good security measures, not all of us trust it.
And this is because ultimately our information is already in the possession of third parties, for this there are services that allow us to implement a personal cloud and today we are going to talk about one of them.
About Syncthing
Syncthing is an open source tool, free and multiplatform It can be used to synchronize files and / or folders between network computers.
Unlike other sync tools, such as Google Drive, pCloud, Dropbox, etc. Syncthing transfers data directly from one system to another, and it is completely secure and private.
All the data will be stored on your system so you can have full control over your files and folders, as none of them are stored on any third party system.
It also gives us the possibility to choose the place where it is stored, if it is shared with a third party and how it is transmitted over the Internet.
All communication is encrypted using TLS, Syncthing has a responsive and powerful WebGUI that will help users to add, delete and manage directories to be synchronized over the network.
Allows you to sync files from one device to another directly without having to go through the intermediaryFor example, if you use Dropbox the files will transit through Dropbox so you will be able to see what we are transferring, and control how your files are transmitted over the internet.
Therefore, The use of Syncthing allows you to gain security and privacy.
Security is guaranteed by encryption and authentication, as there is no central server that holds everything and can be breached.
Using Syncthing, you can sync multiple folders to multiple systems at once, tAll you need is a very stable LAN / WAN connection and enough disk space on your systems.
It is compatible with all modern operating systems, including GNU / Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and of course Android.
How to install Syncthing on Linux?
In order to install this tool on your system, you must follow the following steps according to the Linux distribution you are using.
Si you are an Arch Linux user, Manjaro, Antergos or any distribution derived from Arch Linux we can install the application from the official repositories.
sudo pacman -S syncthing
In case we want to install the GTK version we must type:
sudo pacman -S syncthing-gtk
Now for those who are users of Fedora and derivatives we install with:
sudo dnf -i syncthing
For those who are Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint users or any distribution derived from these, we must add the following repository to the system.
We must open a terminal in the system for it and type:
curl -s https://syncthing.net/release-key.txt | sudo apt-key add –
echo "deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/syncthing.list
Once the repository has been added, we must update our list of packages and install with:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install syncthing
For openSUSE users can install the application with one click from the openSUSE software page.
They should only go to the following link.
Finally, for the rest of the Linux distributions we can install this application with the support of the Snap packages.
We must have the support to be able to install applications of this type in the system.
Only we must type in the terminal:
sudo snap install syncthing
How to run Syncthing on the system?
To start using this application, just run from the terminal:
syncthing
Once this is done, the browser will open the web page from where we can configure the application.
In case this does not happen it is enough that we open our browser and in the address bar we type:
localhost:8384
Would it be a tool similar to Nextcloud?