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BtSync: Refuses to connect to any peers
Posted on May 20, 2016 Leave a Comment
Have a few ARM based nodes running BitTorrent Sync (btsync) and needed to re-install one of them. Trying to remove it I ended up with my main node (owner) for all my folders to stop connecting to peers or accepting incoming connections. Took me a while to figure out a solution and I couldn’t find […]
Pi: Geo-location backup with BtSync
Posted on April 3, 2016 2 Comments
Building a geo-location backup for your NAS is a good idea! To spread the risk over two or more locations increases your backup value a lot. Most people confuse redundancy and backup. If you only have a USB-disk backup of your NAS it only protects you against hardware failure. If there is a fire or […]
BtSync: Let my NAS sleep
Posted on March 11, 2016 Leave a Comment
BitTorrent Sync (btsync) will re-index all files every 10 minutes to look for new files to sync. After installing btsync on Raspberry Pi initially and then ending up running it on an Odroid-C1 my WD NAS never sleeps. The first 48 hours it was expected since it took all that time to index all the […]
Raspberry Pi: BitTorrent sync alternative Syncthing
Posted on March 10, 2016 Leave a Comment
Btsync is a great tool for syncing data and backups to several different locations. By leveraging the torrent technology you can increase the download/upload speeds by adding more nodes to the swarm. Installing Btsync on a built in system like the Raspberry Pi or Odroid-C1 is a challenge since it consumes a lot of system […]
Odroid: Swap on USB-stick
Posted on March 9, 2016 Leave a Comment
Swap is used when the kernel runs out of memory and need to swap less used information to the disc to make space for information currently in use. In a good setup the swap will never be used but if it’s needed and not existing it will make processes crash. I have just started out […]
Raspberry Pi: BitTorrent Sync
Posted on March 8, 2016 5 Comments
BitTorrent is not only pirated movies and tv-shows it’s an actual technology for moving large amounts of data between several nodes at once. There are several applications for this sync technology. Large companies like Facebook use it to sync new releases among all their production servers for example. If three or more nodes are syncing […]
