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		knz_ on May 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open Source Continuous File Synchronization Even worse if you're trying to sync a file that might be actively changed while syncing - syncthing will reread the entire file as soon as only a few kilobytes are changed. On a file >10GiB this quickly leads to a death spiral of IO and CPU starvation.

mekster on May 14, 2021 [–]

That's why I run a custom backup script every 5 minutes to simply rsync my data over instead of realtime syncing.

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