![]() ![]() You can either allow them to change the files, or just give them read-only access. You choose one or more folders to share, you get a ‘key’ for each folder, and then you can send the key to someone else once they put the key into their sync program, they’ll automatically receive all the files in the folder. So what’s BitTorrent Sync? Basically, it’s a program for sharing and backing up your files using a similar method to BitTorrent. Considering Blizzard has made over $10 billion from World of Warcraft, it’s fairly clear BitTorrent isn’t just a tool for online piracy – it’s got plenty of legitimate uses as well. ![]() As well as unauthorised movie and music downloads, there’s plenty of legal content online as well – Blizzard uses it to distribute updates for their games, like World of Warcraft. If you’ve heard of BitTorrent before, it might be in the context of ISPs threatening to (or actually!) slowing down customers who are using it to download movies, music or games but it’s worth remembering that like FTP and HTTP – services you use daily, in the latter case at least – it’s just a tool for downloading files. Recently I’ve been using a tool called BitTorrent Sync to back up my personal data, and it seemed like something worth writing about because it offers a lot of the convenient features we’re used to getting from cloud based services, but with a few interesting differences in how your data is stored. ![]() In this week’s edition: David Capps, product development manager at Keystone Software, shares how he uses Sync to backup personal files via a work laptop, home PC and Web server, to ensure there’s always a fallback. Each week, we showcase a different use case for BitTorrent Sync and the personal stories behind it. ![]() Sync Stories is a column dedicated to our users. ![]()
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