Update your repositories and install Syncthing on the Raspberry Pi. Sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install syncthing -y. Now start Syncthing to do some initial set up. Syncthing doesn't start with remote access support so kill the process after you see this so we can edit the configuration file. Here's a little how-to on how to use the new syncthing-plugin for your FreeNAS-server. Syncthing is an opensource file synchronisation client/server application. It's a great alternative to btsync or Dropbox. Note: The following text contains passages from my other guide on how to setup FreeNAS.
I will start by quoting the product. What is syncthing? 'Syncthing is an application that lets you synchronize your files across multiple devices. This means the creation, modification or deletion of files on one machine will automatically be replicated to your other devices.' This says it all. Next question is: What for? This can vary: I'm going to say here because it's multi-platform: there are apps, a web interface, a GUI, and so on, and all of if for free. Unfortunately installing it on CentOS is not for newbies. Let's start.
Step one: create a yum repository. There's an entry abut syncthing on the centos forum. It means to create a special repository for syncthing. What I did is I copied an already existing repository, rename it, and edit it.
Inside the edited repo file, we copy this. Then yum clean all, yum update. Or even better, reboot if you can. At the end
And if you have the browser open, the Syncthing web UI as above will open. Now what? We go to the syncthing configuration, and we edit it so that it has my CentOS client IP, not the default one. We may want to create a service for the process, but I'm not going to tell you how to do that.
I test that I can access to the web UI from another computer, and I can. Then I install the syncthing android app (that runs on the same network than my syncthing web server) and add the device on the web interface. It's not very intuitive: to add the device you get a QR code or a very long set of letters and numbers. Anyway, once I add it, I see on the web UI that syncthing wants to add one of the folders of my phone to the 'Folders' section. I click 'it's OK' and the sync begins. Once you are done, you have the typical options: Pause, Rescan, Edit…
I must say the final sensation is very good, so I approve it. The problem will be, as usual, to propagate and promote its usage. We'll see how it goes!
Hi all,
Syncthing Windows 10
Firstly, thanks for Syncthing, I have been using it to sync the files on a remote server with an external HDD connected to my laptop for over two years now and it works very well and is extremely useful, so the continued development is much appreciated.
Now I want to expand my use of it to sync the files contained within my Music folder on my NAS with a partition on another external HDD. The music folder is already backed up to the Cloud roughly every other week but I want more redundancy and a local backup that would be easier and quicker to restore from in the event of an issue with the NAS since the files represent a huge and growing time investment.
I am using a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 running ReadyNAS OS 6.10.1
The guide I am attempting to use to install Syncthing is a one written by Danish Nadeem called How to install SyncThing on ReadyNas and Autostart.
The processor on my ReadyNAS is an Intel Atom D425 @ 1.80GHz and I installed the Linux 386 v1.2.1 of Syncthing on the ReadyNAS, which appeared to install ok.
However I am stalled at Step 5; I can start Syncthing on the NAS but no Node ID appears. I have tried ending the process anyway and attempting the next step of editing the config file with nano ~/.config/syncthing/config.xml but get nano: command not found
(Not sure whether it has any bearing on the issue but I am SSHing into the NAS using Terminal via macOS.)
I hope that's a decent summary of where I'm at. Unfortunately, the guide linked to above is now nearly 4½ years old so I feel it is likely that Syncthing (or ReadyNAS OS) has changed significantly in the meantime such that the guide itself needs updating in order to work.
Install Syncthing Freenas
Syncthing Systemd
In addition, attempting to visit the GUI in my browser by visiting http://127.0.0.1:8384/ does not work either, even if I substitute the URL of my NAS.
However I am stalled at Step 5; I can start Syncthing on the NAS but no Node ID appears. I have tried ending the process anyway and attempting the next step of editing the config file with nano ~/.config/syncthing/config.xml but get nano: command not found
(Not sure whether it has any bearing on the issue but I am SSHing into the NAS using Terminal via macOS.)
I hope that's a decent summary of where I'm at. Unfortunately, the guide linked to above is now nearly 4½ years old so I feel it is likely that Syncthing (or ReadyNAS OS) has changed significantly in the meantime such that the guide itself needs updating in order to work.
Install Syncthing Freenas
Syncthing Systemd
In addition, attempting to visit the GUI in my browser by visiting http://127.0.0.1:8384/ does not work either, even if I substitute the URL of my NAS.
Install Syncthing In Portainer
If anyone can offer any pointers so I can get Syncthing to work on my NAS, it would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
