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2.3 KiB
39 lines
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10 years ago
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<b>Bittorrent sync</b>
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For some long time I was looking for a way to synchonize my data between my
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computers. I got a NAS and that was the place to store my data. When I was abroad
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I had to rely on both internet connections, because all my files are stored
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home. Today I got the invitation for Bittorrent chat. Sadly it was only for
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windows users, but on the website I saw the application Bittorrent Sync.
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It's not open source, but apart from that, it works +---------+
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great! The application is made for Linux, BSD, Mac, | |
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Windows and even iPhone an Android. How does it | Desktop |
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work? | |
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+---------+
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You start on a computer with a directory you want /\
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to share with other persons and/or computers. It / \
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will generate two key's for you. A read/write key / \
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and a read-only key. Feeding the read/write key to / home \
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my laptop starts the synchonization of my personal ~~~~~~~~~~~~
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documents. When it was finished, I could write in / internet \
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one, and within a couple of minutes read the file / \
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on the other computer. If it's not able to sync, / \
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it waits till you got an internet connection. +---------+ +---------+
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If your router got UPnP support and you are dumb | Laptop |----| iPhone |
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enough to enable it (or not disable it), it even | | | |
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works from abroad. Otherwise you can open the port +---------+ +---------+
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in your router yourself and set the same listing
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port on you client.
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There is even support for temporary key's, just for one person to use within
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24 hours. Now you can share your files with someone else, give people readaccess
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on your pictures, work together on projects etc, etc.
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The only disadvantage is the fact that with N nodes in your virtual network,
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all the data is stored N times. So it cost you some more disk space, but he,
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redundancy comes with a price :-)
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More information: <a href='http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/' target='new'>Bittorrent Sync website</a>
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