Comments on: BitTorrent Sync 7 Times Faster Than Dropbox

By: Marcin Kochanowski

Marcin Kochanowski — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 16:50:00 +0000

Works really well, in a essence dropbox replacement for sensitive data.

By: George

George — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:24:00 +0000

UDT is an open-source standard.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 05:05:00 +0000

Or just rsync + cron. That should do the trick.

By: dimodi9

dimodi9 — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 19:39:00 +0000

We created a BitTorrent Sync client on AWS called http://www.usesync.com — feedback would be appreciated.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:41:00 +0000

Well, then combine the them into one tool and release it. Nothing about open-source says you can’t just hide the details of operation but then release your complete package as source…

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:37:00 +0000

There already are UDP-based FTP replacements based on Bit Torrent. The problem is that they all have issues such as proprietary, working only on one OS/limited system library versions, and so on. In theory all you need is to have a small tracker on the backup server and a frontend that automatically creates and uploads a .Torrent file. Mark it as private so that DHT doesn’t work. Then have ANY BT client that allows for automatically loading .Torrent files in a specified directory, on the machines to mirror the content. Fully open source and fully modular. Now if only BitComet would make their per-file mirroring part of the official and open standard.

Put a deduping filesystem on the servers holding the mirrors and you’d have a winner. Best part is that it fixes errors in real time without depending on RAID and the like. I’m hoping that people start implementing a kind of turnkey solution that you can boot a homemade NAS box with.

By: Ola Nordmann

Ola Nordmann — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:44:00 +0000

That will not help at all when the closed source component (a black box; you have no idea what it _can_ do; now or in the future) can get hold of the encryption key.

By: Harvesteri

Harvesteri — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:04:00 +0000

great !
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By: R-Sol

R-Sol — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:42:00 +0000

if they won’t release the source code, how can we know what a “very profitable company” will do with our data ?

By: zbeast

zbeast — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:57:00 +0000

I like it for one reason.. you files are not exposed to a third party.
dropbox has your files and becasue of that they can be shared without your permission to others. it also sucks too have to pay a monthly fee to share a file with yourself.