Automatically Propagating Btsync Settings To Several Offsite Servers.

[unixunderground]

Hello,

 

I have bene fiddling around with BTsync ever since its initial public release, and needless to say, its a pretty awesome concept + app and glimpse into the future of distribuited computing.

 

However, there is something that I am currently struggling with.

 

I currently have 5 Linux amd64 servers and 2 ARM RPIs, in different offsite locations running BTSync as "backup nodes" for increasing download speeds on my BTsync clients + data resiliency.

 

The only issue is , that for each folder that I want to add, I have to manually SSH into every single server one by one, mkdir a new directory, then head over the web interface of each server, select the folder and input the secret.

 

This obviously works fine, however I can't say it's the most practical thing in the world.

Especially now that I have been hosting BTSync folders for both family and business clients, and the amount of folders I have to add is increasing by the day, doing all of this manually is a rather annoying and inefficent time-consuming process.

 

So I have been wondering, is there any way that I could set up a "master server" or something like that, on which I add a folder+secret, and then such master server propagates the new folder sync settings to the other 6 slave servers, which then go on relying my folders?

 

I welcome any inputs

 

Thanks in advance!

[RomanZ]

Hi unixunderground,

 

There is no any centralised server which can force some keys \ folders, but I can advise to proceed with at least 2 solutions:

 

1. BTSync API. You can use API (which is actually HTTP-based) to control your peers and add folders simultaneously.

2. You can control your btsync with config file rather than with WebUI. And if you do so - you can make a script which connects one by one to all your peers and modifies config file to add new folders with new secrets.