#RESILIO SYNC AN ENTIRE FOLDER INSTALL#
#RESILIO SYNC AN ENTIRE FOLDER UPDATE#
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#RESILIO SYNC AN ENTIRE FOLDER INSTALL#

You’ll need to import the signing key used by the new repository before you can use apt-get to install things from it. deb btsync non-freeĬlose and save the file (ctrl-x, y, enter). If you followed the previous version of this article, and already have a btsync.list file, make sure you clear out any existing entries so that this is the only line in the file. This will let APT know where to get the files it needs to install. sudo nano /etc/apt//btsync.listĪdd the following line to the file. Since the previous version of this post was published, an official package has been released. Name the file something that lets others know what package it was created to support.Īlthough the product’s official name has changed from “BitTorrent Sync” to “Resilio Sync”, the package name is still “btsync”. This is the preferred way to keep everything organized so you don’t lose track of which source was added to support which package. This new file must be in the /etc/apt/ folder, and must have the extension. There is an apt-get package available for Resilio sync, but it’s not listed on the well-known public repositories yet, so we’ll need to edit apt-get’s list of sources to add the new repository.Īs with some of the other posts, we’re going to create a separate file to contain the sources needed for Resilio Sync. It seems that running both Resilio Sync and Syncthing at the same time works just fine, but you probably won’t need both. Look at both options and decide which you like better.

#RESILIO SYNC AN ENTIRE FOLDER SERIES#

Note: You may want to check out the Syncthing post in this series as well. This post is going to be pretty short because, to be honest, the installation is dead simple. What you need is a node in your network that’s always on.

You may want to share files between work and home, but by the time you get to work, your home computer will have fallen asleep and vice versa. The trouble is that in order for a file to travel from one computer to another, they both have to be up and running at the same time so that they can talk to each other. If you put something in a sync folder on one computer, it shows up in the sync folder on all of the other computers. Think of it as a peer-to-peer network where all of the peers belong to you (Your desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, etc). It’s a file synchronization application based on the BitTorrent protocol. The same people that brought you BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file sharing application, have created Resilio Sync (formerly BitTorrent Sync). Or maybe you’re just looking for yet another thing for your Raspberry Pi to do. Perhaps you’re uncomfortable with that, even if they’ve promised that they won’t peek at it. One thing they all have in common is that a copy of your stuff is on someone else’s system. You have Microsoft’s OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox, and SpiderOak just to name a few.

There are plenty of cloud sync solutions out there. You can keep Resilio Sync up to date again… until the next time their key expires… sometime next December. You can install the new key in exactly the same way you installed it originally. Next, you’ll need to install an up-to-date signing key before apt will be happy again. In my case, it was “05CD43032484414B”, so the command to clear it out is: sudo apt-key del 05CD43032484414B Copy down the key signature from the error message, and substitute it in the following comment.

#RESILIO SYNC AN ENTIRE FOLDER UPDATE#

You’ll still be able to update Resilio Sync with a new key, which we’ll install in a moment, but unless you clear out the old one, you can expect to keep seeing the error.įortunately this is easy to do. That’s the seemingly random string of letters and numbers in the error message. You’ll want to remove the old signing key because apt-get is going to go on complaining about it forever if you don’t. You’ll first notice it when you go to do an apt-get update, and receive an error that says something like “EXPKEYSIG 05CD43032484414B Resilio, Inc.”. Reading the instructions is one thing, but watching it done demystifies the whole process.Īpparently, the Resilio signing keys have a habit of expiring every December. If you have a Pluralsight subscription, please consider watching it. Self-Promotion: I have recorded this series as a screencast for Pluralsight: Please refer to the series Introduction for a list of all the different posts in the series.

If you’ve started from something other than a non-NOOBS Raspbian image, then you’ll probably need to adjust for that. If you are just trying to add one thing to an existing system that was not built following this series, then I cannot promise that these instructions will work for you, although they probably will.

Resilio sync an entire folder