Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync + Raspberry Pi

For Raspberry Pi found another useful application. Mini-computer perfectly copes with backup and file synchronization between different devices. You can connect an external drive or a large flash drive to it, and RPi is ready to work around the clock, synchronizing files from computers, laptops and Android devices (the iOS client will be released soon). There is no need to pay for the cloud service if you can make the same convenient "cloud" at home, and for free.

American programmer Jack Minardi published step-by-step instructions on how to run BitTorrent Sync on Raspberry Pi.

First you need to install Linux on Raspberry Pi, there are several suitable distributions, for example, Raspbian Wheezy . Then we connect the computer to the network and install ARM-build BitTorrent Sync on it.
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mkdir ~/.btsync && cd ~/.btsync wget http://btsync.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/btsync_arm.tar.gz tar -xfv btsync_arm.tar.gz 

Mount an external disk or flash drive, formatting it under EXT4.

 df -h #   , , `sda1` sudo umount /dev/sda1 #  sda1    sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 -L BTSync #  sda1    

After that, run the program.

 cd ~/.btsync sudo ./btsync #   `sudo killall btsync` 

From the computer, go to the btsync web interface by IP-address IP-address Rspberry-Pi: 8888 / gui - and add folders for synchronization, immediately generate a secret key.



To add other devices to your personal cloud, you also need to install the BitTorrent Sync client on them and enter the same secret key.

Now our files are synchronized from any devices on the local network and via the Internet.

It is also advisable to register btsync in RPi autoload and protect the web interface with a password if you open it on the Internet.