Resilio Sync
Resilio Sync (formerly BitTorrent Sync) is a proprietary peer-to-peer file synchronization and sharing tool. It can securely sync files between devices on a local network, or between remote devices over the Internet via a modified version of the BitTorrent protocol. Major features are the following(take note that some of the features require Sync Home/Sync Family Premium Plan:
- Traffic between devices is encrypted with AES-128
- Can sync files to all of your connected devices
- Selective Sync
- Per User Folder Permissions
- Control Bandwidth Usage
- Available on major platforms
Resilio Sync has some paid features, which has been listed below:
- Free version only has One Synchronization Mode (Synced) and can only sync standard folders.
- Advance folder sync is a Pro feature.
- Free has No local sync ability
- You cannot sync Folder A to Folder B if both folders are on the same Ultra service.
- You cannot change permissions once set in the free version. You would have to recreate the sync folder from scratch.
- Free cannot perform selective sync. Everything inside a selected folder will be synced, and a filter cannot be applied
For more information on Resilio Pro, please visit this link. For more general information, you can visit this link.
In this section, we'll be setting up Resilio Sync for the first time. For this guide, we'll assume you want to set up a folder on your slot as your "synced folder", which will be synced automatically to your devices.
Initial Setup
- From your User Control Panel, go to the Installers tab and find Resilio Sync in the list. Click the Install button.
- When prompted, set a strong password.
- Wait until the installation has been completed.
- Go to the Apps tab on the UCP and find Resilio Sync in the list
- Click the Show info button to reveal the URL to access the webUI of Resilio Sync.
- Once the webUI has been accessed, you will be presented with the Resilio Sync setup wizard.
- Choose Product: Sync
- Set a Name of the sync server.
- Please choose carefully as this cannot be changed later
- Register at resilio.com/sync/register to obtain a license key.
- Once you have received your license key via email, you need to upload it to your Ultra service.
- We recommend to upload it via FTP, but feel free to use any method.
- Take note of the path where you uploaded the license key, as you will need to navigate to it when applying the key in the setup wizard.
- Next, press Apply New License and navigate to the previously uploaded license key.
- The default name of the license key is
Resilio Sync.btskey
Share Options
Link
After clicking the media folder then clicking open, you are presented with this screen. The following are our recommended options
Permissions
- Read Only: The Client Device can read and copy the data but Cannot delete or add to the Folder
- Read & Write: The Client Device can read and copy the data CAN delete or add to the Folder
Security
- New Peers Must be approved (if sharing with other people)
- Link Expiry and Number of uses applies to the email link or copied link only
Setting this means that if you share the link with a friend or publicly, anyone trying to sync will need to be manually approved upon the First connection attempt only. This can be changed to all peers by clicking the blue text, which will cause every connection, regardless of if it's been made before, to require manual acceptance. If you are planning to use syncing just for personal use, I would recommend disabling this checkbox.
Folder Keys
These are Unique codes that can be used to connect sync clients with the required permissions without the need to use the security options above.
QR code
This can be used to connect the Folder to your mobile devices.
Finalize Setup
File Download Location
Go to Preferences > General. The only option you need to set here is File download location. It is used if you want to pull data from a client to your Ultra service. We recommend logging into your service via SSH and create a new clean folder for your downloads, and set it as your File download location.
Once connected via SSH, execute the following commands:
mkdir ~/resilio && echo ~/resilioCopy the output of that file, then Edit the option in Resilio by unticking Ask where to save each file before downloading, then add the full path of resilio to the end of the path.
Speed Throttling
You may also have to set the speed throttling options here. This is used to help keep your bandwidth under control as syncs are highly IO intensive. Also, Resilio sync is counted to your upload bandwidth.
We recommend 25MB/s for both download and upload.
Connect Your Resilio Sync Server to your Devices
To connect your Resilio Sync server to your devices, you need to install Resilio Sync Clients to your devices. You may visit this page for more info: https://www.resilio.com/platforms/desktop/
The process varies per device, but this assumes that you'll be connecting to your Windows PC. We will make use of the Key Or Link you set up. Click the plus button and click Enter a key or link
This will present a follow-up screen to paste your Key or link into. Paste the link or Key to add the Folder.
Clicking Next will then open Windows explorer for you to choose the Folder that you want to sync to.
The syncing will begin as soon as you select your Folder.
Resilio Sync Free vs Pro
Resilio Sync has some paid features, which has been listed below:
- Free version only has One Synchronization Mode (Synced) and can only sync standard folders.
- Advance folder sync is a Pro feature.
- Free has No local sync ability.
- You cannot sync Folder A to Folder B if both folders are on your Ultra service.
- You cannot change permissions once set in the free version you would have to recreate the sync folder from scratch.
- Free cannot perform selective sync everything inside a selected folder will be synced and a filter cannot be applied.
For more information on Resilio Pro please visit: https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/204754419-Sync-FREE-vs-Sync-PRO
If you require further assistance, you can open a support ticket here!
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