The student who created it went off to do international NGO work or something, but his co-conspirator ended up working at BitTorrent, Inc for a bit. Van Jacobson made a couple of offhand references to Snakebite at a Google TechTalk he gave in 2006. These days, it's not well known at all, and the Internet seems to have mostly forgotten about it, but there it is. This is why I want the SyncThing project to catch up.įun fact: An open source version of BTSync called Snakebite was introduced back in 2006, predating BTSync by 6-7 years.
#Bittorrent sync vs syncthing software#
The only problem is I have to trust BitTorrent's proprietary software to do the heavy lifting for me. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's. It synchronizes files between two or more computers and replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. No cloud services involved, no risk accidental publishing something private, no risk of an account hack, and no expensive data storage plans. Syncthing is a secure decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) file synchronization program that can sync files between devices on a local network or over the. What is Syncthing It is a continuous file synchronization program. My phone, laptop, NAS, iPad, all have my photos backed up providing good data redundancy. This means I don't lose precious photos from a trip if my phone accidentally falls in the ocean. Most importantly, I have all my photos and videos synced as I take them. All of them got it right away with no technical questions or issues. I was able to share 15 GBs of vacation videos with 10 of my non-techie friends by sending them a read only key to a shared folder. The mobile app is a user-friendly delight. I am able to completely subvert the cloud and have all my data synced across devices. For backround, I'm using recommended settings for both syncing apps, no relays, ecryption or anything that might slow things down. BitKinex, however, is pulling a steady 2.9 MB/s which effectively saturates my connection. I use BitTorrent Sync with my FreeNas box. I'm not sure Syncthing is any faster but it doesn't have this weird bug I'm experiencing with BT Sync. If BTsync ever goes open source or SyncThing ever achieves the quality and functionality of BTSync, then achieving autonomy over our data will be easy.
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