Re:Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync
by domainkiller on Thursday October 30, 2014 @11:02AM
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I've currently (slowly) migrating from Dropbox and BTSync to Syncthing. I'd say you might have a glitch in the matrix if BTSync is running that high without any active transfers.
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Re:Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync
by de_dave on Thursday October 30, 2014 @11:11AM
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On my (already battery-starved) laptop, it would always suck up 100% CPU for a few minutes on a fresh boot, and then occasionally pop up now and again.
On my (PowerPC!) NAS, it was constantly using lots of CPU and RAM, although I have a feeling plenty of that was caused by swapping to disk (NAS only has 128MB). I love the fact that BTSync have the forethought to provide a PowerPC client for people with outmoded NAS's like mine, just disappointed it was still too heavy to work reliably.
Re:Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync
by 0x5f3759df-i on Thursday October 30, 2014 @11:09AM
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I'm completely switched over to Syncthing/Pulse or whatever they're calling it now. I have no trust for a proprietary "cloud" with my data.
Re:Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync
by de_dave on Thursday October 30, 2014 @11:19AM
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Would love it if Pulse had the option to encrypt the stored data (currently it only encrypts during transmission), so it could be used on untrusted hosts.
Yeah, definitely. It would be a lot easier to have multiple redundant copies of my data if I didn't have to worry about securing each one.
It's one of the main reasons I picked Duplicity for backup.