Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows

Re:Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows by degenerate on Monday July 08, 2019 @02:40PM (#20385484)

Thanks for creating Hamachi. I used it for older games that didn't have internet play, but had LAN functionality, with friends online. I never knew it was a solo project before LogmeIn bought it (and made it buggy/unreliable). What a joyfully simple program that was!

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Re:Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows by wlesieutre on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:19PM (#20385832)

Oh wow, I've used both Hamachi and Bvckup, but never realized they were made by the same developer. Two great pieces of software.

We used a couple of alternatives after LogMeIn bought Hamachi and retargeted it at enterprise users, but none of them were ever quite as good. And as games have continued to strip out LAN support and/or gotten better at working through NATs, it's been a while since I needed anything like it.

No longer using Bvckup (my photo library doesn't live on my Windows machine anymore) but it was a nice change of pace to run something where it felt like the developer actually thought about the interface. With most utilities on Windows that's really not the case.

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Re:Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows by apankrat on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:56PM (#20386170)

Hamachi had its place back in mid-00's, but I agree that a need for zeroconf LAN bridging has gone down substantially since then.

I do think however that extracting its p2p tunneling bit into a separate service could be a good thing to do even now. Its NAT punching was server-driven, which was (and still is!) a superior way to do it. Better timing, tighter port prediction. Heck, it could even establish _TCP_ tunnels through the simultaneous open trick.

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Re:Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows by apankrat on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:26PM (#20385902)

De nada. It was a good project.

In addition to the LAN gaming over the Internet, the second best thing was pranking people by printing random stuff on their LAN printers.

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Re:Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows by jbverschoor on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:46PM (#20387460)

What do you think about ZeroTier?

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Re:Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows by apankrat on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @02:38AM (#20389488)

Looks like an elaborate and well-thought through take on zeroconf overlay networking.

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