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I use Syncthing for most of my cross-device sync'ing, but I haven't yet found a good FOSS solution for sync'ing locally (local folder to external hdd, mp3 player, another local folder, etc).

There were a few posts on the Syncthing forums requesting it as a feature but they didn't really get anywhere:

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/possibility-to-sync-local-fold...

In the mean time, I'm using GoodSync for sync'ing locally:

http://www.goodsync.com/download

It works quite well for that purpose, but since it's proprietary I'm not comfortable with blindly trusting it to sync my important files over the internet.

Still waiting for that perfect open-source p2p sync app that can also do local sync'ing.

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What about git-annex[1], duplicity[2] or bup[3]?

I personally use duplicity to make versioned backups of my homedir (on OSX, debian and Arch machines) and keep versioned dropbox-like backups via owncloud. My homedir backups are GPG encrypted automatically.

1: https://git-annex.branchable.com/

2: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

3: https://github.com/bup/bup

duplicity with gpg is good idea for backup and security, but probably difficult to deal with large amount of binary data(pictures,family videos) up to, say 2TB.

No? If only does deltas, presumably you aren't changing all the files very often. My largest duplicity backup is, ~800GB. With 24h of hourly snapshots, 1 month of daily snapshots, and 1 year of monthly snapshots, the actual backup currently takes ~5TB. It only increases in ~1-10GB/day

Unison File Synchronizer is made for you!

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Worth noting that it's not maintained anymore http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/status.html

Actually your link says just that nobody is paid to maintain it.

"It will continue to be maintained and supported for the foreseeable future, and we occasionally release new versions with bug fixes, improvements (sometimes large ones), and contributed patches."

> I use Syncthing for most of my cross-device sync'ing, but I haven't yet found a good FOSS solution for sync'ing locally (local folder to external hdd, mp3 player, another local folder, etc).

Seriously ? How about Rsync?

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