Calabast

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  1. Hmmm, maybe I can get them to set up a folder their computers monitor, and I can put text files in it with simple command line statements like "copy X file into folder Sync" and their computers are set to read and execute any file that shows up. Getting pretty complicated at this point though.... Thanks for the info.
  2. Yeah, I don't necessarily need to be using VPN, if it can transfer another way, that's fine with me. Hmm...yeah, I wish I could do a selective sync on my computer, so I wouldn't have to join their secret and start downloading the whole directory. Also, I see that people have requested scheduled sync times, I'd probably need that feature too, as my friends currently sync at specific times, and probably wouldn't want a constant/always running sync. But yeah, with those two features, it sounds like that could really work well. I'll have to keep an eye on bt sync's development.
  3. Other possible ideas I had: -A private bittorrent tracker, with a seperate torrent file for each file they have. Downsides: Would they have to have bittorrent running at all times, with every torrent currently running in it? Even if i wasn't copying at the moment, seems like that could eat up some of their system resources. -Some kind of FTP server/client that supports segmented transfers from multiple sources?
  4. I am in a VPN with two friends in other cities. They have a shared directory of files they keep synchronized all the time. I don't want to also sync, as I don't want every single file, but I occasionally want to copy an individual file from them. I can currently browse to either of their folders and copy the file to my computer, but then only one of their computers is uploading the file to me, which with our ISP's is about 1/10th of our download speeds. Does anyone have any clever ideas for a way to let me copy any file I want, and have both of their computers send me the file (each sending half), doubling their upload/my download speed? Some kind of segmented file transfer system? One idea I had was for all of us to have a bittorrent sync folder called "sync" that we share, and is kept empty. If I somehow could move a file from their shared directory into their sync folder, then it would start sending the file to me. But I'm not sure if I can locally initiate that file copy on their computers, or if it would just try to first download the whole file to me, and then upload it back to the sync folder.