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Deep inside BitTorrent Sync's cloudless file syncing |
May 13, 2014
Cloud services like OneDrive and Dropbox are dead-simple to set up and make multi-device file syncing an absolute breeze—but those services force you to stash your files on the company’s third-party servers. For some people that’s just not an option, or at least an option they’d rather do without.But there’s another easy alternative that lets you automatically sync files between devices even if you don’t trust the cloud: BitTorrent Sync Beta.What is BitTorrent Sync?
Harnessing the distribution power of the BitTorrent protocol, BitTorrent Sync Beta—which I’ll call BTSync from here on out—lets you sync files across devices or share them with friends using peer-to-peer file sharing technology. Files are also encrypted in transit, and since there’s no real cloud service there are no storage limits beyond the hard drive size of your devices.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2152444/deep-inside-bittorrent-syncs-cloudless-file-syncing.html#tk.rss_howto
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