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I want to "vote" for a selective sync feature.

I'm interested in knowing what this nc utility is.

When you sync a folder full of files, what order will it index the files in that directory? And what order will it upload those files? With dropbox, it syncs the files in order of smallest first. I'm wondering if btsync behaves similarly in that regard. If nobody knows I guess I can figure out a way to perform a test that will let me know.

UDPtunnel sounds doable but a complicated solution. Maybe if I was super determined. Or set up openVPN on both ends.

It seems that it is just a matter of time before you begin finding btsync "secret" keys posted to forums and other websites as ways to share movies and such, just like you already find .torrent files at torrent tracker and search websites.

My SSH / tunnel only forwards TCP packets, but it is my understanding that btsync can be configured to work that way. That does sound like good advice, I think I will try putting it on a Linux machine so IT has no access to what is installed on the machine, firewalling it, and turning off "relay server" "tracker" "search LAN" "DHT" (already disabled by default), and adding predefined hosts so that it goes through the SSH tunnel. I'll report back if this works for me.

So the read/write secret is customizable. Is the read-only secret customizable?

I have so many great uses for bittorrent sync, I love it. For example a VPS server I rent to run minecraft on for my friends, I use bittorrent sync as a simple 2 way sync of the backup directory to/from my home PC. And soon I'll set it up on the VPS I use as a web host so I can quickly update the website by just editing the file on my home PC. Oh! and mirroring to multiple servers. This is just great! --- Now, to the topic of this thread... I want to use it to keep it synched between a folder on my work PC and my home PC. I'm not so sure I can because of the network where I work. It is against IT policy for anyone to be allowed to use peer to peer software. They have network monitors and scanners that look for traffic that appears suspiciously like virus activity or peer to peer software. I know they seek out bittorrent traffic and the antivirus software is configured to disallow programs from running that look like bittorrent software. Some employees have been busted for torrenting, probably both from the antivirus detecting common bittorrent client names and from the network traffic being detected. The network monitor disables the port of the offending computer if they detect such traffic and notifys the employee's manager for disciplinary reasons. I use a proxy for all my at-work web surfing so they can't spy on me in that way because all they can see is an SSH encrypted stream to my VPS server. Since to my knowledge bittorrent sync uses bittorrent technology, how much does its traffic look like torrent network traffic? I wonder if it would trigger the network monitor to become suspicious? And if they probed the one TCP and one UDP btsync port that I would have open, what information would it give out?