So for better and worse you only have resources of your own devices.
The software will use remote servers to help establish connection (important and necessary when computers dont “see” each other directly in network sense), but it won’t store any data in the cloud. Unlike cloud–centric services there is no remote storage component.
Just like in a torrent network every device can both receive and send, accelerating the process and availability.
Folders can be shared for two–way sync or read–only mode to send files off, without accepting any from other computers. BitTorrent Sync is a software (from torrent’s protocol parent company) that uses much of the same technology for private file synchronization.Īfter installing the client you share the folders on device and pair them with other devices. The torrent protocol had been supremely popular for peer to peer file distribution, not involving centralized services or accelerating them. The options are more limited for requirements that make services unwanted - such as available space, security implications, and bandwidth performance. There are quite a few services (starting with, or rather being popularized again by, Dropbox) that offer this kind of connectivity and cloud storage. The task is pretty much as it always was - given two (or more) computers, connected via network, keep some (or horribly many of ungodly size) folders of files between them in sync. BitTorrent Sync uses torrent technology to sync files, which puts it in some ways ahead of established file sync solutions. I jury–rigged basic torrent–based file sync years ago, but it took plenty longer for complete solution to appear out of available building blocks. The files are ancient, but it took decades for Dropbox (the golden end–user file sync standard) to appear.
If you want to install the gtk version without the indicator, run below instead: sudo apt-get install btsync-gui-gtkĪbove commands work for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 12.04.The curious thing about IT is how easy to envision things, yet how insanely long it takes for some of them to become real. To install this unofficial ready to use server and desktop packages, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal, when it opens paste the commands below and run one by one: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tuxpoldo/btsync THE SOFTWARE AND THE PACKAGES BELOW ARE UNOFFICIAL AND NOT THE WORK OF BITTORRENT® INC. At the moment of writing this tutorial, it is at version 1.3.1. If you want an easy way to deploy BitTorrent Sync on Ubuntu, there’s a desktop GUI with Unity indicator created by community.
The official packages are available for download at the link below, check your OS type (32-bit or 64-bit), download the appropriate package under the Linux section, and finally run the executable from the extracted folder.įinally, you can access the web client in your Web Browser by visiting “ BitTorrent Sync Desktop App with Indicator Applet: Numerous bug fixes reported by users in 1.3.Improves data transfer speed, CPU consumption, peer discovery. Sync tracks if synced folders move and automatically adjusts paths to keep the folder synced. Right-clicking on the folder in Explorer / Finder exposes “Share with BitTorrent Sync” item, which ads the folder to Sync and automatically generates a Key (Secret). HTTPS links are generated by Sync and shared with a remote peer to exchange Keys securely, using X.509 certificatesĭirect connection between peers is possible as long as one of the two peers is not behind a proxy
Also, UI was simplified significantly to make Sync use faster, convenient, and easy to use. UI was fully revised and now looks similar on all platforms.
It has native versions for Mac, Windows and Linux, as well as native NAS integration. BitTorrent Sync, a p2p file syncing service, now has been updated to version 1.4 with new simplified UI and other new features.īitTorrent Sync is a simple tool that applies p2p protocol for direct live folder sync with maximum security, network speed and storage capacity.