#Bittorrent sync xp windows 10#

That is, if you insist on taking shortcuts like I tend to on rare occasion, then this is the less abusive of the shortcuts taken here. The easy(ish) way is probably the way the Syncthing developers would like you to do it.

#Bittorrent sync xp windows 10#

So, now, finally, to the point: Getting Syncthing to behave with “Users” folders on Windows 10 (actually, Windows Vista and later)… again, at your own risk.Įverything here is as of Syncthing v0.14.45. I had to read and combine several posts to build what I needed and probably wasted far too much time on it (although, most of that was in building up the initial backup, which had to be spent one way or another after CrashPlan’s bail). Thus, setting up a Pi as such is something you do at your own risk and there are plenty of other posts to help you with that. For starters, Syncthing does not claim to be the ultimate backup service (but I figure less-than-ultimate is better than nothing). What this post is not: This post is not a guide to setting up Syncthing on a Pi as a backup service. Also, as just a bonus, Synthing offered a more supported solution to also backup my legacy Windows XP gaming machine (something CrashPlan stopped allowing a couple years ago, and Resilio has outdated support for ). Two things ultimately led me to choose Syncthing over Resilio: (1) open-source review of their security, and (2) a post by Jaime Jiménez, Running Syncthing or Resilio on a Raspberry Pi 3.

A friend pointed me to BitTorrent Sync (now called Resilio Sync) which, in turn, led me to their open-source competitor, Syncthing.

Thus, I started to look at setting up a remote Raspberry Pi backup server myself. As replacements, CrashPlan was pushing either Carbonite or their own plan for small businesses… but either of those would have at least doubled the cost of backup. With CrashPlan getting out of the home backup business, I found myself shopping for a new backup solution.