![]() Now we need to restart the btsync process to apply changes. To save the options just press Ctrl+O and then Ctrl+X to exit the editor. So lets edit the configuration and setup a password and change the port (:8888) if you like.īelow command will show you a example configuration.Ĭopy the output of it and lets save it elsewhere and edit it.Ībove command will create empty nfig file and paste the configuration options that you copied earlier.Īs you can see on above screen, you can add a password, user name and change the port by editing the text here. Now you can access the BT Sync web interface at “yourip:8888”Īs you can see, our BT Sync control panel is not password protected. Below command’s will untar and install it.Ībove screen shows us that BitTorrent Sync is installed ans started. Since the download is complete, We have to extract the tar.gz file and install it. Just replace the link on above command with 64bit version. However if you are running a 64bit OS, you can choose the download file from here. If you have less than 1GB of RAM its recommended to run 32bit operating system thus the 32bit version of BT Sync. Next, we have to download the BitTorrent Sync installer and install itĪs you can see below I have chosen the 32bit version of the installer because I’m running an 32bit operating system.First SSH in to your VPS/Dedicated Server with root privileges.Also you can use Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS or any other Linux operating system for this guide. Even if you have 128MB of RAM on your VPS, that’s fine. BT Sync will work fine on any virtualization platform such as KVM,OpenVZ or XEN and it doesn’t require much resources to work. I’m using a 512MB RAM OpenVZ Linux VPS from Ramnode with 120GB of SSD-Cached storage and Debian 7 32bit is installed as the operating system. On this guide, I will explain you how to setup BitTorrent Sync master server. You can find more feature details on the main web site. Just like Dropbox, when files added to your sync’d folder it will start to sync the files immediately and when you remove a file on a folder it will be sent to a trash folder on your server so you could recover it later if you made a mistake. So as long as you keep the private secret (32 character long number sequence) your files are safe. Files aren’t visible to public as its encrypted by using a private key and only those people who has the private key can view your files. ![]() ![]() While this uses BitTorrent protocol its totally secure and private unlike regular torrents. BitTorrent Sync is totally free except for the costs to run a VPS or Dedicated server as a master Sync device.īitTorrent Sync uses BitTorrent protocol to sync files between your computers and your master server. But the problem is if I need more and more storage, cost goes way up. Thankfully to Samsung I have 50GB of Dropbox storage free for 2 years. Dropbox is great I use it everyday and features like camera upload is a life saver. BitTorrent Sync comes handy if you need more space and privacy (PRISM). BitTorrent Sync is the latest addition to BitTorrent product family and to put it simple, it lets you to sync your files between your computers just like Dropbox does. ![]()
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