Photostructure & syncthing setup

README.md

Notes on getting syncthing working to backup my smartphone pictures.

• I bought a small VPS with (found on https://lowendbox.com/)
• Setup with debian-10
• Installed syncthing with apt: https://apt.syncthing.net/
• Setup syncthing as a (system service): https://docs.syncthing.net/users/autostart.html#using-systemd
  • check start command: argument serve is not needed.

Traefik setup

• Docker compose:
  1. add file provider https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/v2.0/providers/file/#filename
  2. mount dynamic conf file to traefik container
  3. add "extra host" to traefik's docker-compose.yml
• Dynamic config file

docker-compose.traefik.yml

version: "3.7"
services:
  traefik:
  [...]
  command:
    [...]
    # 1. Add file provider
      --providers.file=true
      --providers.file.filename=/dynamic_conf.yaml
  volumes:
    [...]
    # 2. mount dynamic conf file
    - ./dynamic_conf.yaml:/dynamic_conf.yaml
  extra_hosts:
    - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"

dynamic_conf.yaml

http:
  routers:
    syncthing-fe:
      rule: "Host(`your.domain`)"
      entrypoints:
      - https
      tls:
        certResolver: "letsencrypt"
      middlewares:
      - withauth
      service: syncthing-fe

  middlewares:
    withauth:
      basicAuth:
        users:
        # use `htpasswd -n willywongi` to get your hashed password
  
  services:
    syncthing-fe:
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
        - url: http://host.docker.internal:8384