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-layout: post
-title: Setting up bittorrent sync with Ansible
-summary: In which I share how I install bittorrent sync with Ansible.
-type: codex
----
-
-Recently, I've started to look at the services I'm using and I'm trying to find alternatives for some of them. One of them was [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/). I've been using this service for 4 or 5 years at this point, and I was a paid customer for at least 3 years. My plan was about to renew in a few days, and I decided to look for a free (either as "doesn't cost a buck" or OSS) alternative. To make it quick, since it's not the purpose of this post, I've decided to go with Bittorrent Sync. Still, this solution is not perfect, so here's a short list of pros and cons:
-
-* Pros:
-    * Free
-    * The only limit on storage is based on the free space you have
-    * Decentralized
-* Cons
-    * Harder to set up
-    * Slower than Dropbox for syncing files
-    * Decentralized (yes I know): you need to always have at least one node up if you want to get a copy of a file
-
-I decided to set btsync on one of my server that is always up, that I way I can access my copies whenever I want from any devices (this is similar to Dropbox). To do that I've create a set of tasks for Ansible, following the instructions provided by [Leo Moll](https://github.com/tuxpoldo) (who created the package for Debian) on [this forum](http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/18974-debian-and-ubuntu-server-packages-for-bittorrent-sync-121-1/).
-
-I've created a role named 'btsync' that contains a handler, some templates and a bunch of tasks. Let's start with the handler, since this one is really simple. For this role, the only y service we care about is the bittorrent sync daemon:
-
-```yaml
-- name: restart btsync
-  service: name=btsync state=restarted
-```
-
-The tasks are pretty straightforward. First we need to fetch Leo's PGP key so we can install the package using `apt`.
-
-```yaml
-- name: Install GPG key for btsync
-  apt_key:
-    id=6BF18B15
-    state=present
-    url=http://stinkfoot.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x40FC0CD26BF18B15
-```
-
-Now that we have the PGP key, we can add the repository to our sources and install the package:
-
-```yaml
-- name: Add the deb repo for btsync
-  apt_repository:
-    repo='deb http://debian.yeasoft.net/btsync wheezy main'
-    state=present
-
-- name: Install btsync
-  apt: pkg=btsync state=installed
-```
-
-For the remaining tasks, we need some configuration.
-
-```yaml
-btsync_shared:
-  - dir: /path/to/shared/photos
-    secret: a-secret
-    use_relay_server: true
-    use_dht: false
-    search_lan: false
-    use_sync_trash: true
-  - dir: /path/to/shared/documents
-    secret: another-secret
-    use_relay_server: true
-    search_lan: false
-    use_sync_trash: true
-```
-
-The daemon expect all the directories that it will write to, to exist. So let's create them for him, and also set the right permissions on them:
-
-```yaml
-- name: Create the directories where we need to sync
-  file: path={{ item.dir }} state=directory owner={{ main_user_name }} group={{ main_user_name }} mode=0700
-  with_items: btsync_shared
-```
-
-We need a specific configuration file for our user:
-
-```yaml
-- name: Configure btsync
-  template:
-    src=etc_btsync_user.conf.j2
-    dest=/etc/btsync/{{ main_user_name }}.conf
-    group={{ main_user_name }}
-    owner={{ main_user_name }}
-    mode=0600
-  notify: restart btsync
-```
-
-and the template that goes with it:
-
-```json
-{
-        "device_name": "{{ domain }}",
-        "storage_path" : "/home/{{ main_user_name }}/.btsync",
-        "listening_port" : 12589,
-        "check_for_updates" : false,
-        "use_upnp" : false,
-        "download_limit" : 0,
-        "upload_limit" : 0,
-        "disk_low_priority" : true,
-        "lan_encrypt_data" : true,
-        "lan_use_tcp" : false,
-        "rate_limit_local_peers" : false,
-        "folder_rescan_interval" : 600,
-        "shared_folders" : {{ btsync_shared | to_json }}
-}
-```
-
-To complete the setup, we need to tell the daemon to start with our newly created configuration:
-
-```sh
-# This is the configuration file for /etc/init.d/btsync
-#
-# Start only these btsync instances automatically via
-# init script.
-
-AUTOSTART="{{ main_user_name }}"
-
-# Optional arguments to btsync's command line. Be careful!
-# You should only add thngs here if you know EXACTLY what
-# you are doing!
-DAEMON_ARGS=""
-```
-
-Finally, the task to setup the default configuration for the daemon:
-
-```yaml
-- name: Configure btsync server
-  template:
-    src=etc_default_btsync.j2
-    dest=/etc/default/btsync
-    group=root
-    owner=root
-  notify: restart btsync
-```
-
-That's it!
-
-I'll try to find some time this weekend to upload this to [Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansibleworks.com/).