BitTorrent Sync is a new software (still in beta) who help you transfer files between computers. Like Dropbox and similar you can share a folder with someone else and start the syncronization but with the great value that not external server are involved. Is just between you and the other one.
SO
Since there is still no a simple way to backup my pc photographs on the wd my cloud ex2 who is in another home, i thought that installing Sync on the ex2 could be a very interesting thing.
WD you really, REALLY consider this and really consider to expand the software installable on the ex2.
So i started to do some search and i’ve found that sync is already supported by the big names competiors…
And that’s where appeared in my mind the big screen… “a new hope”…
All i had to do was understand how to install software not already supported.
But how?
DON’T DO THIS IS YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
Well it’s a linux system definetely… so somehow you can do it.
SSH could be helpful so i turned it on and logged in with Putty.
So i
uname -a
( Some more informations here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7830/western-digital-my-cloud-ex2-2bay-nas-review )
and discovered is a linux ARM system so i could download the right version from
http://www.getsync.com/intl/it/download
following the instruction here:
http://help.getsync.com/customer/portal/articles/1569510-how-do-i-install-sync-?b_id=3895
and here:
http://www.maketecheasier.com/install-bittorrent-sync-on-linux-server/
i’ve found how to install something on linux with ssh.
Too bad the former guide is not updated with the right files or url so i had to save the correct version on my server and wget from there.
Magically at the step:
./btsync
the message “BitTorrent Sync forked to background” appeared! and then…
going to “http://your-ip-address:8888”…
did not do anything.
I know… is not what you expected… but i think that is something. And if i reached this point maybe someone could help me to reach the final goal who seems to be really really close.
So i’m here to ask you to help me going through this and ask wd to consider adding sync as a sofware.
P.S.
DON’T DO THIS IS YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.