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Syncthing is not a backup software

Open tomasz1986 opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Hello,

I'm writing this message, because I've stumbled upon your repository, and I can see Syncthing on the list of supposed "backup" software. I'd like to point out that Syncthing is a file synchronisation utility, which is not intended to be used in replacement for a proper backup (see https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#is-syncthing-my-ideal-backup-application).

The maintainers have underscored this fact whenever possible, yet we still see people coming to the forums for help after losing files in belief that they've been using a backup program. Thus, I'd like to kindly ask you not to advertise Syncthing as "backup", because doing so can easily lead to bad results, especially for less experienced computer users.

tomasz1986 avatar Sep 23 '21 11:09 tomasz1986