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Initial Setup

In this guide, we'll be setting up Syncthing for the first time. For this guide, we'll assume you want to setup a folder on your seedbox as your "dropbox", which will be synced automatically to your Windows PC.

Please make yourself aware of the Ultra.cc Fair Usage Policy. Directly pointing Syncthing to sync your cloud storage will create extreme strain on your slot's disk and could cause a 24 hour ban on accessing your cloud storage. Please Consider Rsync or Rclone with a reasonable limit set on speed. It is your responsibility to ensure usage is within acceptable limits. Ignorance is not an excuse.

Prerequisites

  • Download and install Syncthing on both your seedbox and the devices you prefer. You may refer to Syncthing Downloads to get which apps to use for your preferred platform. For this guide, we'll be installing SyncTrazor along with Syncthing on the seedbox.
  • Login to your seedbox via SSH and create a folder which will be used to sync folders with. For this guide, we'll be creating a folder named Syncthing. Also get the full path of the folder by doing pwd as shown below.
usbdocs@lw873:~$ mkdir Syncthing
usbdocs@lw873:~$ ls
bin  Downloads  files  media  openvpn  >Syncthing<  watch  www
usbdocs@lw873:~$ cd Syncthing/
usbdocs@lw873:~/Syncthing$ pwd
/home20/usbdocs/Syncthing

Do not attempt to mount your rclone remote directly on your home directory. This will lead to instabilities. Instead, always create and use an empty folder within your home directory.

Setting up Syncthing on Seedbox

  • Upon installation and entering the set credentials, the Allow Anonymous Usage Reporting? window appears. Read over this and select if you agree with data reporting or not.

  • Click Add folder.

  • Then enter the following information. Once that's done, click Save.
General

Folder Label: {Any}
Folder Path: {output of pwd}

Setting up Sharing on the PC

Shown here is instructions for Windows using SyncTrazor but it should be similar to all other devices that support Syncthing

  • Get the seedbox's device ID by going to Actions -> Show ID. Copy the generated ID above.

  • Launch SyncTrazor, the Allow Anonymous Usage Reporting? window appears. Read over this and select if you agree with data reporting or not.
  • Then under Remote Devices, click Add Remote Device

  • Then enter the following information. Once that's done, click Save.
General

Device ID: {Paste Seedbox Device ID here}
Device Name: {can be blank}


Sharing

Auto accept: Checked


Advanced: Device Limits

Incoming Rate Limit (KiB/s): {optional}
Outgoing Rate Limit (KiB/s): {optional}

  • Go back to your Syncthing seedbox, you should see a New Device window. Confirm that it is indeed your device by checking the Device names and Device ID's shown and click Add device.

  • Then enter the following information. Once that's done, click Save.
General

Device ID: {SyncTrazor Device ID here}
Device Name: {automatically filled}


Sharing

Auto accept: Checked
Share Folders with Device: {Check the folder you just created. In this case, Syncbox}


Advanced: Device Limits

Incoming Rate Limit (KiB/s): {optional}
Outgoing Rate Limit (KiB/s): {optional}

  • Your synced seedbox folder will show up on SyncTrazor in %HOMEPATH%. For this case, it's in %HOMEPATH%\Syncbox

  • To sync files to and from your seedbox, just copy/move files from your seedbox/PC to Syncbox and it will automatically sync.

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