I actually started “really” using it when I was 3000 km away from my home NAS! True story - worked perfectly, couple of ARM devices and my Linux laptop, in Melbourne, syncing to my Resilio Sync FreeBSD jail on my NAS at my home in Perth… If anyone’s interested and wants to look further - let me know - I can share my rudimentary bash script… I even started writing a shell script to install it on debian, ubuntu and RPM based distros, but didn’t work so well on Fedora or CentOS and gave up… I do a few tweaks to it after installation so it runs as my user account on boot and by default listens on 0.0.0.0 - so I can access a headless machine across my LAN, and opened up another port on my router with a port FWD rule so I can get to the “main” (or master?) web UI on my NAS (it’s actually pretty much 100% peer to peer, and uses bittorrent protocol) from the interwebs… There’s no “GUI” in Linux - but - the WebUI (default runs on Port 8888) is fully functional… The Windows client does have a GUI, haven’t tried on MacOS, but had no dramas on iOS (iPad) or Android (although the Android app does seem to lag a bit sometimes, and stop running)… I edit a shell script from my work location, check the “peer” on a Linux machine in my home network 5 mins later, and it’s sync’d!). I keep my main bash shell scripts folder in Resilio Sync - and I’ve got access to all my shell scripts… pretty quick too - and it syncs over the interwebs (e.g. you’ve got a 100 GB music folder, a 50 GB document folder, and a 1 GB shell scripts folder? Just create a new sync “target” for each of those folders separately - and if one your machines doesn’t have 100 GB available, just don’t sync the music sync “folder” to that device. If you pay for a license for Resilio Sync you can do “selective sync” - however - I found a “workaround” to do that without paying… e.g. you store / replicate your data on your own devices/storage… pretty similar to a self-hosted Owncloud or Nextcloud (I could never get the client for either of these to run on Raspbian - plenty of info about running the server on an RPi, but not the client). It’s probably even faster than Dropbox in my experience - but there’s one major difference - it’s not a “cloud provider” - i.e. Loved it so much I bought a “lifetime” pro license (includes 5 user family license) - but haven been able to convince any of my family to use it as well. ![]() I runs everywhere - my iPad*, my Android phone, my Windows desktop at work, my three main x86 Linux machines (including my bionic laptop I “lug” to work everyday so I don’t have to use Windows), 2 x RPi3b, BananaPi, OrangePI 2E+ (plus more - CHIP, Pine64, MaruOS on my Nexus 5)… RPi)… then I found “Resilio Sync” (which also has a jail based plugin for FreeNAS) and haven’t looked back since! Tried NextCloud and OwnCloud (running in jails on my FreeNAS) but wasn’t satisfied - the main thing I wanted was to have a cloud sync that also ran on Linux ARM devices (e.g. ![]() I use Dropbox “mostly” - but after a period of unemployment I cancelled my pro account, and even then I barely used 150 GB of my 1 TB allowance… Been using Dropbox “cross platform” for 10 years now - so - I’ve earned 11.5 GB anyway… but could never get a “client” to work on ARM powered Linux devices…
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