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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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