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What about BitTorrent Sync? Is that still a thing, and didn't do Dropboxy type things?

I’ve been evaluating Resilio Sync as an alternative to Dropbox these past few weeks. The main problem I’ve come across is the extreme amount of RAM this program needs. Their website says they require 2kB RAM for every indexed file, which is insane. I’d wanted to run this on a Raspberry Pi, but it doesn’t fit in the Raspberry’s 1GB of memory

I don't remember details but the last time I tried it the program didn't work reliably enough for me. Nowadays there's Syncthing which does the same thing but better.

It is not the same thing. SyncThing's model of having to add every host to every other host (possibly with introducer nodes) is much more complex. With Bittorrent/Resilio Sync, you can just give someone else a read-only or read-write key for a folder, and they become part of the swarm. Also, Resilio Sync supports encrypted-only nodes, which participate in the swarm by providing bandwidth, but only see ciphertext. This makes it possible to use e.g. an untrusted VPS as an always-available node.

Unfortunately, Resilio had to ruin it with complex enterprice-y license schemes.

It is now called Resilio Sync and it still works fine. Unfortunately, they have focused more on enterprise customers and now have more enterprise pricing.

I use it to sync my multiple android devices, home laptop and two servers.

Quite happy with it.

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