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