Clone Dropbox with a Raspberry Pi and BTSync

Post by Zoomla » Fri, Nov 01, 2013, 10:08 PM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #55

Zoomla wrote: post #39

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plus, the RPi can't even achieve full USB 2.0 speed, it is not a good choice for a file server.

FWIW, in this use-case the limit is the wifi or more likey your internet connection speed. You don't really need blazing disk read/write speeds for your "Dropbox clone" - if you can read and write data as fast as your adsl connection goes - anything more is "wasted". As a general purpose file server though - yeah, a 'Pi isn't going to stream multiple HD videos to all 4 bedrooms on your home network.

When I setup a file-server for myself, I set it up on the local network I use most, so the Internet speed is relevant, but not that much.

Post by korg250 » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 2:04 PM UTC

swombat wrote: post #46

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #16

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Actually not. Dropbox has a feature called Selective Sync which lets you choose which files are synced to which computers.

We're not using that. Dropbox is a shared drive for the company. My question, still unanswered, remains whether anyone has made btsync work well in a setup where it's used as a shared drive for 10-20 people who interact with many files, though usually not the same file simultaneously (though that happens occasionally, and Dropbox seems to support it...)

Based on neumann comment above, btsyng still has a lot of issues.

Keep using Dropbox.

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