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The Awesome BitTorrent Sync

The BitTorrent Sync is really an awesome tool for syncing files between your different devices. Currently, it supports Windows/Mac/Linux. The software is not like dropbox(cloud services stored you files on their servers),  it syncs folders among your own devices(the security is protected by a secret key and encrypted file transfer). And actually BitTorrent Sync is not Dropbox killer, the two services are both just awesome in their own way. Dropbox is still consider to be my own online safe storage, but BitTorrent Sync can be used as much faster sharing and syncing.

For example, you may setup it on Linux via follwing steps

#Downloading and unpacking
wget http://btsync.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/btsync_x64.tar.gz
tar vzxf btsync_x64.tar.gz
#Copy to /usr/bin/
sudo cp btsync /usr/bin/btsync
#Generate the config from sample config
btsync --dump-sample-config > ~/btsync.conf
# Edit the ~/btsync.conf based on the embedded comments
# Detail config in linux, please refer http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync/get-started.html#config-file

Note BitTorrent Sync will always use the latest file, versions of files is not supported yet.


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