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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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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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