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'I’ve been using for syncing several gigabytes of RAW photos and video across my various machines,' Brown wrote. Brown describes how he used a Raspberry Pi, BitTorrent Sync, and OwnCloud to create his own 'personal cloud.' If you're looking for a weekend project, you might want to check out this May blog post from BitTorrent Digital Creative Manager Dan Brown. The user is always in control of their own data.'

The software will be as usable (and free) in the future as it is today. 'As BitTorrent Sync doesn’t rely on servers, your data is never exposed to prying eyes… Likewise, Sync is built in such a way that the product will never shut down. 'With all of the NSA and PRISM developments of late, consumers are more keenly aware of online privacy and digital security issues,' the company said. 'The client reports back anonymous usage statistics to check if there’s a new build available and to help improve the app.'īitTorrent also made its pitch that Sync is the software to use for privacy-conscious individuals. 'While we have general statistics about the BitTorrent Sync app, we don’t have any access to private information,' the company wrote, by way of reassuring people that their data is safe. Since the alpha launch in April, the software has been used to sync more than 8PB of data, BitTorrent said. BitTorrent Sync can also run on Linux-based Network Attached Storage devices. There's no word yet on when the software will be robust enough to drop the 'beta' label.īesides Android, Sync has versions for Windows, Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD. There are various bug fixes, and the beta software should be more stable than the alpha version. The beta version of BitTorrent Sync is expected to go live at noon Eastern time and will be available for download here. 'Unobtrusive and searchable, this feature has been in high demand and will evolve over time.' It will include a folder where you can see all previous versions of your files,' BitTorrent's announcement said. The 'SyncArchive' feature 'is a basic versioning capability introduced with the Beta.

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The first mobile app is for Android an iOS version will follow soon.

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Some new features-including 'mobile apps and an archive capability for retrieving previous versions of synced files,' BitTorrent said-have been added since we went hands-on with the alpha version of the software back in April.

today plans to release a beta version of BitTorrent Sync, software that provides Dropbox-like syncing using the same peer-to-peer file sharing technology that powers BitTorrent clients.

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