To sync my 1PW data I use(d) the Dropbox (DB) integration across all my devices (Win/Mac/iOS). DB a few years ago did not have a limit on the free option on how many clients you could have on your account. Fast forward a few years to when DB implemented 3 device count limit per account. They allowed grandfathering of existing devices counts, and slowly but surely as the useful life of said DB linked devices end so to did the grandfathered device counts.

Now my DB account has the maximum of linked devices - one laptop, iPhone and iPad. I can sync between these 3 devices, great. But what about if you want to add more computers or even NAS. I have a QNAP NAS with Resilio Sync installed also. On said NAS I have hybrid mount linked to DB account. I have setup a realtime sync job on NAS that syncs with DB directory where my 1PW data is stored. So now I can circumvent the DB 3 device limit and add 1PW standalone licensed computers and use the sync Folder option instead of the sync DB option. All the data syncs nicely and I'm maximising my 1PW7 investment.

Two simple examples with big consequences: The app keeps freezing on Android and the Windows service cannot be installed in some cases.

The former meant that I was forced to weave in Syncthing, which is possible with the right ignore patterns, so that the Android systems work smoothly - just embarrassing. One of the servers has now been completely switched to Syncthing and the coexistence of Resilio and Syncthing is working smoothly.

If the update cycles continue like now, I will have to change completely in the long run, although I don't really want to, but since the administration is correspondingly more complex. In addition, Resilio wasted a lot of time and allowed Syncthing to become just as good and reliable, which was not always the case. It has also become more flexible in terms of features. The only real advantage would be the selective synchronization.

So I say: Resilio takes care of your community intensively, making it the best advertisement in many companies. If you allow Syncthing to completely overtake you, it's your own fault.

-Don

... Like a Java/html5/silver light plugin in the browser?

Thank you.

You can access Sync's Web UI running on any machine on your LAN by entering ThatMachinesIPaddress:8888/gui.

As a corollary to this: if you use Sync as a service do set a UI password, otherwise you run the risk of giving anyone (including malicious apps) access to your config and files, which is really bad.

The Ubuntu host NEVER seems to sync with my stuff at home when located at the office - but strangely enough, sometimes the Windows 10 sync does get updates "over the cloud" from my home network.

So - I bought a "tiny" 256 GB USB 3.1 thumb drive - and inserted it into my Banana Pi (m1) running Armbian.  I've soldered battery terminals and a LIPO onto the board.  This is the "original" Banana Pi (model 1?) A20 dual core, 1 GB RAM, pretty much running headless...

I take that home every day and bring it back into work the next day - and (Resilio Sync) sync over ethernet in both cases (work's wifi is flakier than my home wifi and the Banana doesnt have wifi anyway)...  Battery (2700 mah?) drops to 63% capacity during my 45-60 minute commute...  so I reckon I'd probably get 3 hours out of it if pushed...

So - no mattter what corporate firewall rules are in place - my data is sync'd ...  it's nearly all just a subset of my music collection, documents and shell scripts...  I've got a license for Sync Pro, but I don't use selective sync, just three separate sync folders (shell scripts, documents, Music)...  

i.e. 'C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\b57auv0v.default\News' and '/home/Username/.thunderbird/b57auv0v.default/News'

Whichever computer I'm using, never read the same post twice.

It works as Fidly.

• I have a few NAS type servers (most are off site) build with FreeBSD, an awesome OS I might add, check it out!  I have security cameras that send pictures to a folder on the NAS. BTsync simply syncs to each server, and those sync to our cell phones. If the alarm company calls we have pictures on our phones. Also in the event the NAS was found and stolen or destroyed, copies of the bad guys are already off site.
• Our library of family moments (pictures and videos) are replicated to the off site servers. Those servers use Minidlna to stream the libraries to smart TVs. So our parents who live in other parts of the world can enjoy our pictures and videos simply using the TV remote control.
• Side benefit of using BTsync - since my NAS is replicated to off-site servers if my home server were to suffer a catastrophic failure or be destroyed in fire for example I have multiple copies already off-site that I can use. (Note since i use read/write mode everywhere for various reasons, I also use external drives to make rotating copies off-site, just in case somehow a "rm -r *" type boo boo is done.)

(Shameless promotion - I realize there are a lot of folks here that use various OSs, but if you are in the mood to try something truly refreshing, rock solid architecture, etc you should give FreeBSD a try. Its a direct descendant of the BSD type UNIX and if you have a open mind I believe you won't be disappointed.)

Edit 2018-07-20 - I realize now I failed to mention the Synth stuff.  Synth is a program that is used to compile/build other programs for FreeBSD. Some of my other machines are older so less powerful CPUs. So what I do is I use Synth with profiles on the more powerful machine to build the programs. But how does it know what to build? Easy, thanks to Bittorrent Sync (now Resilio) a copy of the target machine files is on the builder machine. Here is the beauty part: lets say you have 50 identical target machines. Sync up the require folders, let Synth do its thing and after completion go to each traget machine and have its local Synth or PKG do the upgrade. Slick!!

Larry

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4) Log in and select the basic plan 250gb - 1 month

5) Use the voucher BETABT

6) Enjoy! and upload tons of data

All feedback welcome here or to contact@btsync.com

Thank you!

• Intel NUC
• 8 GB RAM
• 1 TB SSD
• Ubuntu 15.10 Server

to replace my NAS and sync personal data to it for backup and distribution purposes.

Due to the SSD it's very fast (many times faster than traditional NAS or Cloud solutions) and the power consumption is only 5 W.

i m looking for a small group of guy (20/30) that want to try to make a community of unknown that share part of their computer memory to keep data of other guys. A sort of peer-to-peer small cloud storage of unknown people. 

this is more a social experiment than a technological one.

let me know if interested or for every kind of question. 

Mattia 

Of course, the downside is that an ezine or a blog published using Sync will not be easily found via a search engine.

Kind of like how a BBS worked. It usually got spread through word of mouth.

I haven't published anything yet, but I am planning to give it a go.

If you're interested in contributing, have a look here: http://dokterw.me/dottxt/

I will be honest, it was very hard to manage this many files under the pressure I was under, I tried to do to much to fast and paid for it each and every time.   I am glad I stuck with it, I can see this being a vital tool for me and my DJ growth.   

I certainly have my list of things I dont like (mostly related to firewall, router and config issues), the good outweighs the bad by far!!!

It always annoyed me a little, that sync providers have the mindset: “Either it all goes here, or it goes there…” Fact is I want remote control over my files from any device at any time, so this is the specification of how I have created my own VPN using BitTorrent Sync running as an OS agnostic background service…

A Network Attached Storage.

I have a 3Tb NAS with five folders:

• /BTsyncApp/
• /BTsync/catalogue
• /BTsync/files
• /BTsync/shared
• /BTsync/devices

/BTsyncApp contains the server application. It is not synchronized using BTsync. It is just the application.

/BTsync/catalogue contains a html page (catalogue.html) with all files and is BTsync’ed to all AVAILABLE ON ALL DEVICES. This is about 100kb of simple html text.

The webpage looks like this:

+---------------------------+

| HTML5 -- simple app ---   |

+----------------------------

| files/folder/             |

| files/folder/name.ext     |

| files/folder/name2.ext    |

| files/folder2             |

| files/folder2/name.ext    |

| files/folder2/name2.ext   |

+---------------------------+

When I click on any hyperlink I get a box with the following options:

• [get]
• [open]
• [delete]
• [destroy]
• [move]
• [share] / [revoke]
• [create torrent]
• [create 1-time torrent]

if it is a folder I get the following additional options:

• [create folder]
• [share folder] / [revoke share]

/BTsync/files contains approximately 2 Tb of data, and there is no way I want BTsync to synchronize this data across my devices.

/BTsync/devices contains a folder for each device. For example:

• /BTsync/devices/HTCphone
• /BTsync/devices/win7Laptop
• /BTsync/devices/LinuxLaptop

And finally /BTsync/shared is used in a special manner which I’ll explain later.

The Devices

All devices have BTsync installed and have two folders: catalogue and files. For example:

My old HTCwildfire has the folders:

• /BTsync/catalogue
• /BTsync/files

My windows laptop:

• D:/BTsync/catalogue
• D:/BTsync/files

My linux laptop:

• /home/me/BTsync/catalogue
• /home/me/BTsync/files

I can now open the html file from ./catalogue as a webpage in any browser on any device.

The attentive reader would have noticed that only the NAS has the folder /BTsyncApp. The devices do not. That is because the server generates the catalogue-webpage in /catalogue. The devices create a hidden appended worklist within the webpagefile which the server analyses. Thereby the only place where changes can be made is on the server, which prevents synchronization conflicts of the file catalogue. Other files may be updated asynchronously but that will influence the content of the file, not the location - which is what the BTsyncApp looks for.

HTML view

When a given file is not on the device, the link [get] is bold.

If I click on the link [get], the htmlfile is saved, with a setting “get” for the filename. The htmlfile is then delta-synced effectively using BTsync, whereby a python script on the NAS will discover the delta and will trigger python to create a hard link from the NAS to the BTsync folder of the device. Very simple.

For example: On HTCphone [get] “drive/folder/name.ext” will hard link /BTsync/files/drive/folder/name.ext to /BTsync/devices/HTCphone which is BTsync’ed with the phones folder /BTsync/files/. So after the hard-link is established, the file is automatically downloaded to the phone.

The same occurs if I [get] a folder: The hard link implies that the rest of the tree should be synchronized.

Warning: (because of fumbling I have learned to prompt a “confirm/cancel box” in the webpage with very large buttons).

When the synchronization is completed, the python script on the NAS updates the webpage-file and synchronizes it across all devices.

At this point in time the file should have been synced to my device, and the link [open] is changed in the htmlcode to bold, whilst the link [get] is normal, i.e. no longer bold.

Of course, if it is a large volume of data, and I want to know how far my download is in the meantime, I can just open the BTsync application and see what it is doing.

Now if I chose to delete a file in BTsync on a device, the local file is of course removed, but on the NAS only the hard-link is removed from the particular device folder.

So for example: me@linux$ rm /home/me/BTsync/files/drive/folder2/name2.ext will delete name2.ext locally, and the NAS will follow by removing the hard link.

The file itself is not deleted from files/drive/filder2/name2.ext only the hard link for the device. I will get back to how this may be achieved further down.

When BTsync makes a change to the folder pynotify reports a change on the file system and triggers the python script to update the simple webpage. Hereby the field [open] is changed to [get]. I’m sure this could be done using some internal mechanism in BTsync, but I don’t know how.

Share with others

If I want to share a particular file with somebody else (this is the cool thing) I press the hyperlink [share]. This prompts the python script to create a folder in /BTsync/shared/ with the sha1hash of the file concatenate with the time, which it adds to BTsync’s list of synchronized folders using command line instructions. Example:

• /BTsync/shared/c191687881d9345c914186591ea850f7c1efb63c-2013-10-28-235959/

This is because it permits me to share the same file to multiple persons with different folders and will maintain the ability to revoke them individually.

Next, the python script creates a hard link from the file to the shared folder, which is then ready for remote access using the read-only “secret”. And, keep in mind that the overhead for setting up the hard link is negligible. Example: 

• /BTsync/shared/c191687881d9345c914186591ea850f7c1efb63c-2013-10-28-235959/name.ext

Finally a can find the read-only “secret” in the BitTorrentSync application and give the code to the person I am sharing with, within seconds as hard linking is very fast.

The menu again

• So my menu is limited for files to:
  • [get] which makes the file available on a select remote device.
  • [open] which indicates where the local file should be.
  • [delete] which deletes the local file and unlinks the devices hard-line on the NAS’.
  • [destroy] which deletes the local file and makes the NAS traverse all links to remove the file and all hard links permanently.
  • [move] which sends a file on a listed device to another (set of) device(s). So I can push the hard link off my mobile phone and onto my laptop. When BTsync see’s that my phone is next to my laptop, it concludes that it is easier to move the file peer-2-peer than requesting it via the NAS.
  • [share] which makes the file available in a separate folder as read-only. When shared, the option changes to [revoke]which FIRST removes the folder from BTsync’s list, THEN unlinks the file from the [share] and then deletes the folder.
  • [create torrent] which makes it possible for people to download the file who cannot install BTsync. For some corporate users this is be helpful.
  • [create 1-time torrent] which - surprise :-) - only can be used once.
• The following options appear in addition if it is a folder:
• [create folder] which prompts for name
• [share folder] which prompts for size in Mb and makes a shared folder on the NAS which any remote device can read the secret from an add to the BTsync. Any size limit greater than -1 will be translated into how much space is available for the user.
• [revoke share] which first creates folder [name-revoked-dd-mm-yy] then transfers the hard links of all files in the folder [name] to the newly created folder; and then removes the folder [name] from BTsync’s list of sync’ed folders. Finally it is up to me to decide whether I share the read-only or the full-access secret using my BTsync application.
• [destroy folder] which wipes the content of the folder on all sync’ed devices. The python script deletes any files in the folder and places a flat text note: “This folder was destroyed by the owner. Date/time”. The folder can obviously not be deleted as this would not synchronize across to other devices (doh!) but you get the point.

This is simple, but it works.

The key element is of course a machine of high on-line availability. Since we are not wanting to use public cloud systems, I wrote this for the most low-power device I could imagine: The Raspberry Pi with an external hard-drive.

Python is as close to OS agnostic as it gets, but I leave the concepts described here for others to review, tune and criticize. My objective was to develop the required functionality and prove the concept, as a scripted transactional system which proved to work. Maybe the team at Bittorrent can supersede by integrating this/augmenting the existing UI’s?

Todo:*

• Cleanup function, that - during idle/night time identifies duplicates in the /BTsync/files on the NAS and substitutes them with hard links. It saves space works faster. This must not work outside /BTsync/files as it could erase BackUps.
• New (4 Jan 2014). Function that load balances storage on devices. Each device will be added a config file (maybe BTsync config file) that states permitted volume. If a device requires files to be synced/download for which there is no space, then this option will permit the application to take the least used, oldest files and remove them from the device to make space for the newly required file. The removed files will still be available on the NAS. The objective is to save the user will from having to worry about local disk-space.
• New (6 Jan 2014). Function that maps the device IP address, for multiple NAS, so that all files are available in different netzones. The initial idea is to use the first three ip-address digits (ip://a.b.c.x) to assure availability in different zones. Hereby if one ip-provider cuts the network to the NAS in zone a.b.c, the files can be available from another zone (x.y.z). This will apply to devices holding a "/files" folder only.

I am going to publish ebooks with BitTorrent Sync.

From 1998 to 2014 I regulary published satires, essays and apostils on my blog http://www.sudelbuch.de

In January I wrapped up these 600+ texts to a printed book (vol. 1/vol. 2) and an ebook. 

And then I decided to stop blogging and to distribute all upcoming texts as an ebook serial with BTSync.

It's a technical and literary experiment and I have no idea what will happen.

I switched from blogging to ebooks because I want to write longer texts. I observed that I don't like to read longer texts in the browser, so maybe my readers also don't like to read my texts if they grew longer. Further, I hope to get a closer relationship to my readers by using BitTorrent Sync. In 1998, when I started to blog on http://www.sudelbuch.de people could subscribe to a mailing list, and I distributed my postings via email too. This was a very personal approach and I got many comments.

If you know German and want to subscribe to my eBook BTSync serial, please click here!

As I am quite new to BTSync I would be grateful for your comments. I am going to update this posting as soon as I made my first experiences.

thanks

The solution: instead of having a paid service to take care of the dynamic IP (like No-IP.org), I wrote a small script to be run on the VNC server PC that will be hidden from view and poll every so often to see if the external IP has changed.  If it has, it will write the IP address to a simple text file, and sync it right on over to my box 1100 miles away.  On my end, (the VNC viewer end,) I have another script that integrates nicely with VNC so that his current IP address is always in the drop-down menu of server selections in the viewer.

It's definitely a hack, and there's probably an easier way to do it, but sometimes it's just the fun of making something work - even if it is the hard way.

We are a software OS team trying to bridge different apps to work simultaneously.

We have ported BitTorrent Sync so that it can be paired or grouped with other apps.

You can try out live right from your web browser.

demo.myprota.com

Bittorrent Sync may not be available on demo but it is available on our OS for Raspberry Pi.

You can download the OS image and run it on a Raspberry Pi so that you can have a private machine dedicated for your apps. You can find the OS image from below.

https://shop.myprota.com/en/download.html

We always welcome your honest feedback. Please share with us if you have one here or on our forum.

http://forum.myprota.com.

Thank you.

Over new years I decided to create a service for anyone to request an "always online" peer with a click of a button.

I called it UseSync.com -- http://www.usesync.com

I basically creates a synced folder on AWS and gives you the read-write and read-only secrets.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated

Also, thank you for making BitTorrent Sync. I have been using it to transfer photos and videos from my mobile device to my desktop (as a USB cable replacement) and it works great.

Omid

Over the past couple weekends, I've put together a site that gives me public access to my sync folders. Did this for a couple reasons.....

1. My computers are seldom on at the same time (when I go to work, my laptop goes to sleep, when I come back home, my work computer gets disconnected from the internet, phone has limited space), and I needed an 'always online' node.

2. I wanted read/write access to my shares without having to sync on the local device.

3. I'd like to start experimenting with some RSS type feature (subscribe to feeds with shares).....needed a testing playground and this had some overlap.

https://www.btcloudsync.com

I'm waiting with bated breath for encrypted nodes so I can approach these requirements from a TNO perspective.....but looks like we're a few weeks away from that happening. In the meantime.....feel free to use this if it suits your needs.

> Red Camera (Scarlet) R3D footage from cinematographer  

> Pro Rez conversions from editor

> AfterEffects renders from VFX

> Shares are located on 3 geographically distant Synology Servers synced via BTSync 1.4.103-9

> Reviewing other use cases opportunistically.

Thanks - we love it. Keep up the fine work.

Peter Farago

Farago Design NYC