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So this will run on RasPi?

It seems like the next step is for someone to attach a NAS to a RasPi and make a "syncbox" -- a NAS which auto-syncs to the other NASes you've configured across the internet.

For end users, they would get 2 and share a secret between them, then install one at 2 separate offices (or home and office), and any files dumped onto one NAS are replicated to the other. Basically Dropbox without file limits.

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I have a Raspberry Pi setup as a NAS and media server (see http://www.naspberrypi.com/) and the first thing I did was download the Linux x64 version for my laptop and the ARM version for my NAS and I had them syncing in about 5 minutes. This is awesome. I'm going to ship another NASpberry Pi (along with an external hard drive that's already a clone of my existing backup drive) to my brother who lives on the other side of the country and completely replace my $100/year backup service with this.

Would totally buy something like that that worked out of the box.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/transporterguy/transport...

Works globally, only ships within the US. That's awesome.

Looking at this, it looks like a 1-stop sharing solution. Im assuming that when a user shares files from this device, the connection is routed from Transporter's servers to the users device, allowing the downloader to directly copy the users file.

I wonder how replication between 2 devices would work...

File transfers are peer to peer.

It does.

Awesome, that was actually my first thought upon seeing this

There's a Linux ARM binary, so ... maybe?

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