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BitTorrent Sync

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BitTorrent put Sync in pre-Alpha. It has Linux ARM client that works on Kindle (as tested on Kindle Touch).

Looking ahead, it could turn into niche solution for syncing Kindle and main computer. Maybe not for all people, but for some.

I've achieved successful syncronization between my computer and Kindle with Sync, however it happened only once in line of many tries and I didn't repeat this success. I'm tired with fails and wouldn't try furthermore, but I have some hints from experience for those who would.

Sync puts its settings and log in .sync folder along the executable.

Sync for Linux has command-line options, that could be displayed with Sync --help .

Sync can stuck on Kindle just after launch because of low available entropy. There will be single record in logfile (.sync/sync.log): GetNodeID failed, using /dev/random. I beleive, you can add available entropy just by typing anything on Kindle [virtual] keyboard.

To access Sync web interface you can forward its port with SSH: ssh -L8889:localhost:8888 root@192.168.15.244 . Then access web-interface on localhost:8889 on main computer.

You must open ports on Kindle with iptables. Required port could be seen/changed in web-interface: Settings -> Listening port. I'm not an iptables guru, but I believe, following commands should help (replace X with number of your port): iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport X -j ACCEPT; iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport X -j ACCEPT . To surviving reboot, these commands could be saved in /etc/sysconfig/iptables (on KT, at least).

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