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How well does BTSync work in terms of a large team collaborating together? Dropbox has a habit of just working, with surprisingly few hiccups (none so far excep
by swombat 13y ago
How well does BTSync work in terms of a large team collaborating together? Dropbox has a habit of just working, with surprisingly few hiccups (none so far except during massive folder migrations). Does BTSync work that well with a team of 10? 20? 30? that work on the same set of documents (though not on the same document simultaneously, so no need for e.g. git).
- IceyEC 13y agoGiven that it's using the Bittorrent protocol (Basically) to handle the actual transfers, yes it will work; the issue you may run into is that there can be a lot of files and data available in the share and every client will try to download all files.
- swombat 13y agoThat happens with Dropbox too though.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoActually not. Dropbox has a feature called Selective Sync which lets you choose which files are synced to which computers.
- swombat 13y agoWe're not using that. Dropbox is a shared drive for the company. My question, still unanswered, remains whether anyone has made btsync work well in a setup where it's used as a shared drive for 10-20 people who interact with many files, though usually not the same file simultaneously (though that happens occasionally, and Dropbox seems to support it...)
- korg250 13y agoBased on neumann comment above, btsyng still has a lot of issues. Keep using Dropbox.
- geofft 13y agoThe challenge here is not data transfer, but interacting with the underlying filesystem well -- handling, say, one user saving a file while another is moving it into a subdirectory, or programs that save files by deleting and rewriting them (or writing a temporary file and then moving it), or similar. That's the real strength of Dropbox.