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BitTorrent Unveils Sync 2.0 60

Posted by samzenpus from the brand-new dept.
An anonymous reader writes BitTorrent today outlined the company's plans for its file synchronization tool Sync. Next year, the company will launch Sync 2.0, finally taking the product out of beta, as well as three new paid Sync products. Ever since its debut, Sync has provided a wide variety of solutions to various problems, BitTorrent says, from distributing files across remote servers to sharing vacation photos. BitTorrent thus believes it needs to build three distinct products for each of these separate audiences, including a Pro version for $40 per year.
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  • Vacation photos (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Is "distributing files across remote servers to sharing vacation photos" the new "and it can access Daily Stock Quotes!".

    I swear I saw that on the box my Commodore 128 came in.

  • Basically (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 20, 2014 @04:27AM (#48424369)

    Fuck the cloud, long live the private puddle!

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by satuon ( 1822492 )

      Yes, I think it's better than trusting everything to someone else's server. This gives you the option to sync using your own hardware. I wonder if you need static IPs though.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        You don't need static IPs.

      • Re:Basically (Score:4, Informative)

        by Neil_Brown ( 1568845 ) on Thursday November 20, 2014 @06:24AM (#48424679) Homepage

        Not quite the same as BitTorrent Sync, but I have used owncloud [owncloud.org] for a while, as I prefer data to be on my infrastructure where possible. It was easy to set up, although was too slow on a Raspberry Pi to be useable, and I have not had much luck using the default sqlite. Now on a Debian VM with MySQL, and it's running just fine.

        I would not make it publicly accessible, though, as it's just not worth the risk to me, so it only syncs when I am travelling after I have connected to the VPN. However, if you didn't have a static IP, a dynamic DNS service should do the job just fine of making it easily addressable externally.

        • Re: (Score:3)

          by Bengie ( 1121981 )
          Not much of a "cloud" if it doesn't support clustering. More like a slew of web services running on a single server. There are some nice services, but Sync allows me to scale with the number of connections.

          • Not much of a "cloud" if it doesn't support clustering.

            7.0.2 does support clustering - in theory. In practice, I've only got one device worth using as a server, so I haven't personally tested it out...but clustering is in its entry stages.

            I will say though that OwnCloud is better at syncing phone-> server than BT Sync, as well as sharing files (just give 'em a URL). OwnCloud's shortcoming, at this time, is dealing with large quantities of files. It seems to throw up rather spectacularly if you're syncing a folder with north of 10,000 files, while BT Sync see

      • Peer discovery (Score:4, Interesting)

        by simplypeachy ( 706253 ) on Thursday November 20, 2014 @06:54AM (#48424759)

        BitTorrent operate global discovery servers and the synced directories can also use DHT if enabled, both of which mean that static IPs are not required. Syncs can also be operated without either of these - they can use LAN discovery and a list of static hosts.

  • Sharing vacation photos (Score:3)

    by kruach aum ( 1934852 ) on Thursday November 20, 2014 @04:27AM (#48424371)

    Well, they are in bikinis, at first.

    • lol I didn't realize sharing vacation photos was such a problem that BT had to come up with a solution better than FB, Picasa etc.

      But then I'm guessing if you were there in person while they made the announcement, you would've seen a "wink wink" after mention of vacation photos.

      • lol I didn't realize sharing vacation photos was such a problem that BT had to come up with a solution better than FB, Picasa etc.

        Oh it is. But don't worry BitSync has almost made it difficult enough that we no longer need to put up with boring selfies at the Eiffel Tower.

  • EFSS (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I'd kill for an on-premises Enterprise File Sharing and Sync that integrates with AD that didn't suck. All you find is personal solutions but where is the cool stuff for companies?
    • The company I work for recently tried NoMachine. I know it's not a sync solution, it's mainly for remote access, but you can file share easily between server and client and vice-versa making it a useful way to store important stuff where you want it, ie. not on someone else's cloud. Nomachine integrates with AD as well.
  • How in earth do they motivate a subscription model for a service that isn't using the cloud? The whole point of Sync is that it's supposed to only involve your own machines. I have been looking into using sync at work as the Dropbox-possibly-giving-all-your-files-to-the-NSA thing isn't really a good alternative but with Dropbox I atleast get some good cloud backup. Now $40 isn't a lot of money for the intended audience for sure but it implies a lot of DRM/payment processor/Obsoleteness issues down the road.
    • The service rotates around features available (read the article) plus support. Do you expect free support if you are a company? Do you expect them to provide everything for free?

      • The service rotates around features available (read the article) plus support. Do you expect free support if you are a company? Do you expect them to provide everything for free?

        I can't speak for the GP, but I do agree with him to a significant extent. Allow me to elaborate...

        Dropbox/GDrive/1Drive charges a subscription to keep devices synchronized, as well as a slice of storage space in their datacenter. They pay for bandwidth and hard drives, and forward a chunk of that cost to me. This makes perfect sense. Their advantages are that they are keeping a copy of your data on their hard disks (in the event of a catastrophic failure on your end) and the fact that they don't require al

    • Are there any mature open source projects that are trying to make personal cloud storage?

      I suspect it depends on what "mature" means to you, but owncloud [owncloud.org] has been around for a little while now, and seems to be updated reasonably regularly. LDAP integration is beta, so it might not be suited to a corporate environment but, for home use, it has been fine for a while (2? 3? years now.)

      There is a plug-in for it, which allows you to encrypt the files at rest within the server, but this did not work so well for me, as it never seemed to finish — I don't think I have a big archive, as it is o

  • Yay (Score:4, Insightful)

    by BlackHawk-666 ( 560896 ) on Thursday November 20, 2014 @08:36AM (#48425009)

    Yay, finally I can stop enjoying the 100GB of free cloud storage that Google provide me, and instead pay $40 / year for no storage at all and the need to provide my own servers :D

    I suppose there'll be a free version for people who don't need the "support". I'm just wondering who the pro version is targeted at.

    • I use BitTorrent Sync heavily at work for transferring extremely large files daily with a variety of external vendors in China, India, and Sweden. The cloud storage costs would be astronomical with the amount of data I'm syncing, and Google services generally don't work in China without a lot of headaches. And that's to say nothing of all the company-specific IT security and permissions I have to navigate to transfer files reliably and get them when I need them. BitTorrent Sync has always basically just wor

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Fwipp ( 1473271 )

        Does IT know you're running bittorrent code on their network?
        Couldn't they just set you up with an FTP site?

        • Yes, IT is fully aware, and they even set it up for me after I requested permission and pitched BitTorrent Sync's merits. My role has me working with anywhere from 20 to 60 external vendors at a time and transferring massive files that are stored on the network, and that's not something I could sneak by IT. ;) Besides, I respect IT enormously, and I vet absolutely everything involving network security and resource considerations by them before I do anything.

          I also have an FTP, but only as a backup. In my

    • Yay, most Bittorrent Sync things are still free, only some new features will have a cost (and only some, not all new things will have a cost). Yay, i control my data,and have a cheap hard drive, or even a NAS at home anyway, now that's able to be synced all over. Yay, I don't need to worry about Dropbox or Google rummaging through my data to sell me things.

      There are a lot of cool things about Bittorrent Sync. Most of the new things will still be free. Yeah, it may or may not fit what you want, but there a

  • Will it be open source yet? Because this is pretty nice: http://syncthing.net/ [syncthing.net]

  • Just an FYI...

    Bittorrent Sync does not use the bittorrent protocol.

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