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Comment by scott_karana | Hacker News Reader

How does it handle conflicts?

http://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#what-if-there-is-a-...

  > When a file has been modified on two devices 
  > simultaneously, one of the files will be renamed to
  > <filename>.sync- conflict-<date>-<time>.<ext>.

I haven't had too many. About the same as Dropbox, I think. From memory, I believe it appends -conflicted-BLABLA's-copy or some such to the filename.

Conveniently, it has a built-in backup system you can enable that keeps the last 'n' copies of files. I've got mine set to 5 so even if something goes horribly wrong, I can fetch from the backup.

I would still worry without offline backups. Malware or a malicious actor could delete the built-in backups from _all_ sync'ed devices by modifying each file 6 times.

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