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I can't exactly recommend to use Amazon services, but if you're doing it anyway something like s3fs-fuse [0] should do the trick so that S3 appears as a standard filesystem to syncthing.
[0] https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse
rcloud is very good. Choose any cloud storage provider, and then run it through a nightly cronjob or whatever.
https://rclone.org/
So, if you really want to use dropbox for syncing git repos, this plugin solves the problem well:
https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox
For me, it solved all of the corruption problems with using Dropbox for git storage. In the end, I decided it was too heavy weight, and wanted to be able to clone my repo on machines that might not have anything other than "git" installed, but until I reached that point, I was a happy user of it.
I'm not aware of a similar tool for syncthing.
> No, seriously. It’s so simple I thought I missed something. But no. After you run that binary, you have a fully operational node of Syncthing. It’s ready to sync with any other Syncthing node, no other setup necessary. There’s no installers, no package management (but there are packages if you want to), no registration, no email, no logins, no password creation, no 2FA, no consents, no user agreements.
The most similar experience I had to this in recent years was using a program called wormhole for peer to peer file transfer: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui
It was refreshing in a similar way; I download and open up the program, a friend does the same, and we can send files to each other, with a code genereated from the program. None of all this accounts stuff.
(For what it's worth, file sending has a similar issue as backup/sync that the author described -- most modern services are some centralized/cloud form, as opposed to the old days of ICQ/AIM/etc. where you could actually establish a direct connection to a friend and send files.)