Pay attention to the ‘Store deleted files in folder archive’ setting. Of course, we can’t audit BTS anyway, so probably best to keep government secrets locked away a little more securely. Dropbox keeps snapshots of everything and the NSA works with Dropbox. Those keys don’t expire and give access to your data. When you’re setting up to start with, I found it easiest to copy the Share URLs into a file in Dropbox and copy-paste them into BTS on the receiving end.ĭO NOT copy the keys into Dropbox if you worry about the NSA reading your data. Parallels might do this by accident, but I’m not willing to risk my data to find out. It might be impossible to make it ‘nice’, but you could at least provide snapshots or something rather than leaving one side corrupted most of the time. There is still room for someone to make an efficient VM synchronisation system. (Try version 1.4.83 if the setting isn’t working.)Ĭhecksumming and transferring large files (like VM images) takes a long time. In each folder’s preferences (on every single peer) you need to unclick ‘Use tracker server’, ‘Search DHT network’ and ‘Use relay server when required’.
I live in the Land Down Under with Slow Internet, so relaying through servers in the US is too slow to be useful.
If two machines are not on the same LAN but do have Internet access, they can talk through the relay service. It is slow, sadly, but you only have to do it once.īitTorrent Sync has a ‘relay service’. Much better to delete all of one side and sync it across. You’ll end up with all files from both sides on both sides, and/or a bunch of conflicts, where you just expected nothing to happen. When you’re starting out with say, your Documents folder, don’t try to sync two complete versions of the folder.
BITTORRENT SYNC MAY NOT SHARE READ ONLY HOW TO
It is not the complete solution.) Therefore, I have some advice on how to make BitTorrent Sync work without too much pain or unexpected data loss. It cannot be fully and correctly solved without massively overhauling how applications deal with data. Sold.įile sync is a really tricky problem. Zero-interaction LAN file sync between machines.
So BitTorrent Sync is a thing, which is basically what I dreamed of when I started SyncDroid. No, I will not use it until I can audit it and compile it myself.) Dropbox is not a good option due to the proud tradition of Crap Australian Internet, and besides, security and cloud services do not mix. Time passed some more, and I find myself at the same desk for three days of the week, with a really nice desktop and another very nice but just-not-quite-as-beefy laptop. I ceased having a consistent desk and became completely dependent on my laptop, which got much bigger to compensate for having to do everything and at the same time only slightly physically heavier thanks to the wonders of technology. Time passed, and I got busy with other things.
I wrote some blog posts to explain my thinking.
BITTORRENT SYNC MAY NOT SHARE READ ONLY ANDROID
So I started writing a program called SyncDroid (no relation to the Android app) to do file-sync-over-LAN. I thought, wouldn’t it be wonderful if my files could be the same on both sides? And if it could do that automatically, without me asking. Once upon a time, before Dropbox was a thing, I had a big desktop and a small laptop.
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