Chris Troutner <[email protected]> writes: > I ran across this article on Slashdot about the new Sync platform in > alpha test by BitTorrent. Apparently it's 'like' Dropbox, but it uses > your own machine. It allows file synchronization between two (or more) > computers, like your laptop and personal server. > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/1941226/bittorrent-launches- > dropbox-alternative > > Does anyone know more about this?
I don't, when I read about it I thought that if I wanted such a thing, I'd almost certainly use git-annex instead (and 'git annex assistant' in particular). See: http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assistant-like-dropbox-but-with-your-own The thing that it probably supports that git-annex does not, is getting files between two computers that cannot directly connect to one another and where no shared staging area is available for them to communicate via. If that turns out to be a real limitation for git-annex, I'd imagine that you'll be seeing a bittorrent sync back-end in git-annex shortly. Oh, the other thing it probably does better is windows, but I'm afraid I don't care very much about that, and if I do have to care Joey has made promises that he'd suffer a month of windows pain in order to port git-annex, so that issue will be going away shortly too. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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