![]() ![]() You make a folder on Computer B, enter the code you were given on Computer A, and now you can see the contents of that folder locally (in either a read-only or read/write capacity), as it gets copied across. You make a folder on Computer A, and set it up as a BTSync shared folder. ![]() Your own computers all basically become peer-to-peer “servers” (even if that is an oxymoron, you get the point).īasically, here’s how it works. You can’t just have 2 or 3 machines on your LAN syncing up between them, and bypassing the DropBox servers. EVERYTHING has to go up to their servers. See, that’s one of the problems with DropBox. My search eventually led me over to the BitTorrent Sync website, and what appeared to be a too-good-to-be-true piece of software to create your own “cloud” over either a local network or the internet. I needed something a bit more “local”, but just as reliable. I have far too many files here to be practical for online storage.Įven if I could get everything uploaded as I create it over the course of however months or years there are between now and my next crash (it will eventually happen, don’t kid yourselves!), it will take days, if not weeks, to download it all again on a fresh system – and my ISP would probably be screaming at me for it. While the internal drives (including the one that died) were backed up to external USB drives, I’d still like to find better alternatives to my current way of doing things (which is using Microsoft SyncToy).ĭropBox was never going to be a solution, nor was any other online backup solution. I don’t need masses and masses of space for that, but I’ve still never really been all that keen on the idea of keeping things online in “the cloud” (which is basically just a fancy new term for the same old servers we’ve always had) as a form of file backup.Īfter recently having had a pretty major crash on one of my machines (motherboard died, taking the processor, RAM and a 2TB hard drive along with it), I’ve rebuilt and started looking into other potential backup solutions. It’s reliable, fairly quick (bandwidth permitting), and fantastic for delivering work to clients and models.ĭelivery of final work to clients and models I’ve shot with has been pretty much my sole reason for using DropBox, and it will probably remain that way, at least for the foreseeable future. That's part of the web-UI of the program, there is no "Default", everything is manual.I’ve been using DropBox for probably about 3 years now, and it’s rather good. Modify one line, which, is the exact same as a web-UI, just in a file editor vs a websiteĮ. How about for those who don't want to use a command line to create and edit the config, what if you want to be able to set the webgui port or choose where to site the config file so that it's not on ram or flash? Or select where your default sync location? What about starting and stopping the daemon?ĭ. No dependencies, no special configuration files, nothing. You don't need a plg for this, it's literally download, extract, run. I literally gave you the exact code you need to copy and paste into your go script. Just needs something simple to install the app and configure the absolute basics from within the unraid webgui, then hand-off the rest of the config work to the app itself. Someone else may beat me to it which is fine. Info is available in BitTorrent Sync User Guide.įYI, am about 70% complete in writing a plugin for this. Advanced preferences can be added to config file. specify hosts to attempt connection without additional search enable sync trash to store files deleted on remote devices use relay server when direct connection fails "dir" : "/home/user/bittorrent/sync_test", // * required field "secret" : "MY_SECRET_1", // * required field use -generate-secret in command line to create new secret Override the folders previously added from WebUI. Shared directories specified in config file * !!! if you set shared folders in config file WebUI will be DISABLED !!! Remove "login" and "password" fields to disable credentials check * remove "listen" field to disable WebUI "use_upnp" : false, // use UPnP for port mapping "pid_file" : "/var/run/syncapp/syncapp.pid", uncomment next line if you want to set location of pid file "storage_path" : "/mnt/user/Appdata/bitTorrentSync/", Otherwise user-defined directory will be used * storage_path dir contains auxilliary app files "listening_port" : 1234, // 0 - randomize port Here's my nf (I know there's loads of commented stuff, I could remove it, but, meh):. ![]()
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