nate/btsync repository overview

⁠BTSync in Docker

This repo contains instructions on how to build a docker image that will run BTSync⁠.

⁠Docker registry

This image is available on the Docker registry⁠ as nate/btsync⁠:

$ docker pull nate/btsync

⁠Why another BTSync docker image?

There are nearly 50 images in the registry⁠ for BTSync already. I looked through several of them before creating this one. Here are the unique features of this image:

• This image can run without a host volume, ideally for sync peers that are for sharing data and not backing it up.
• Runs as a dynamically created user with the same UID/GID as the host volume. This means that files that are sync'd can be edited from the host because they're effectively owned by the same user.

⁠Building

$ git clone https://github.com/justone/docker-btsync
$ docker build --rm -t nate/btsync .

⁠Running

This will run with a temporary home directory, so all BTSync configuration and data will be lost when the container is removed:

$ docker run -d -p 8888:8888 -p 55555:55555 nate/btsync

You can specify a host volume and that will be used for BTSync configuration and data.

$ docker run -d -p 8888:8888 -p 55555:55555 -v /host/path:/btsync nate/btsync

⁠License

Copyright © 2014 Nate Jones

Distributed under the MIT license.