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-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
-[[https://www.dropbox.com/][Dropbox]]. 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
-[[https://github.com/tuxpoldo][Leo Moll]] (who created the package for
-Debian) on
-[[http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/18974-debian-and-ubuntu-server-packages-for-bittorrent-sync-121-1/][this
-forum]].
-
-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:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-    - name: restart btsync
-      service: name=btsync state=restarted
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-The tasks are pretty straightforward. First we need to fetch Leo's PGP
-key so we can install the package using =apt=.
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-    - name: Install GPG key for btsync
-      apt_key:
-        id=6BF18B15
-        state=present
-        url=http://stinkfoot.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x40FC0CD26BF18B15
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-Now that we have the PGP key, we can add the repository to our sources
-and install the package:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-    - 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
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-For the remaining tasks, we need some configuration.
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-    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
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-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:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-    - 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
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-We need a specific configuration file for our user:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-    - 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
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-and the template that goes with it:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-    {
-            "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 }}
-    }
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-To complete the setup, we need to tell the daemon to start with our
-newly created configuration:
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC 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=""
-#+END_SRC
-
-Finally, the task to setup the default configuration for the daemon:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-    - name: Configure btsync server
-      template:
-        src=etc_default_btsync.j2
-        dest=/etc/default/btsync
-        group=root
-        owner=root
-      notify: restart btsync
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-That's it!
-
-I'll try to find some time this weekend to upload this to
-[[https://galaxy.ansibleworks.com/][Galaxy]].