And indeed, BitTorrent Sync is a great way of syncing and sharing files between computers, even files that you usually wouldn’t trust with cloud sync tools such as Dropbox: besides the files being transferred directly between the users (so your files don’t end up on some cloud server), the connection is encrypted with a AES cypher and a 256-bit key created on the base of your Secret, a random 20 byte or more string. For increased security, there’s also an option to generate a Secret that expires after a day.
How to use BitTorrent Sync on Linux
To use BitTorrent Sync (or “BtSync”) on Linux, download and extract the binary for your architecture (Ubuntu users: use the “Linux i386″ or “Linux x64″ links on the left; don’t download the “glib 2.3″ binaries), extract it and to run it, simply type the following in a terminal (assuming you’ve extracted the “btsync” binary in your home folder):
cd
./btsyncTo see a list of available options, type:
./btsync --helpAnd if you want to stop BitTorrent Sync, use:
killall btsyncNow let’s add a folder to sync. To do this, click “Add folder”, then browse for a folder you want to sync and also click “Generate” to generate a Secret for this folder. Then click “Add” to add the folder:
On Linux, most of the settings aren’t available in the web interface. Instead, you can run:
./btsync --dump-sample-config > sync.conf./btsync --config sync.confFor more on how to use BitTorrent Sync on Linux but also on Windows and Mac OS X, see the User Guide PDF file.
Download BitTorrent Sync for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and NAS.
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