brig: Ship your data around the world
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About
brig is a distributed & secure file synchronization tool with version control.
It is based on IPFS, written in Go and will feel familiar to git users.
Key feature highlights:
- Encryption of data in rest and transport + compression on the fly.
- Simplified
gitversion control. - Sync algorithm that can handle moved files and empty directories and files.
- Your data does not need to be stored on the device you are currently using.
- FUSE filesystem that feels like a normal (sync) folder.
- No central server at all. Still, central architectures can be build with
brig. - Simple user identification and discovery with users that look like email addresses.
Also take a look at the documentation for more details.
Installation
You can download the latest script with the following oneliner:
# Before you execute this, ask yourself if you trust me.
$ bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sahib/brig/master/scripts/install.sh)
Alternatively, you can simply grab the latest binary from the release tab.
Development versions can be installed easily by compiling yourself. If you have
a recent version of go (>= 1.10) installed, it should be as easy as this:
$ go get -d -v -u github.com/sahib/brig # Download the sources.
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/sahib/brig # Go to the source directory.
$ git checkout develop # Checkout the develop branch.
$ go run mage.go # Build the software.
$ $GOPATH/bin/brig help # Run the binary.
Please refer to the install docs for more details.
Getting started
...If you want to know, what to do after you can read the
Quickstart.
There is also a #brig room on matrix.org you can join with any Matrix client.
Click this link to join the room directly via Riot.im.
Status
This software is in a beta phase currently. All mentioned features should
work. Things might still change rapidly and there will be no guarantees given
before version 1.0.0. Do not use brig yet as only storage for your
production data. There are still bugs, but it should be safe enough to toy
around with it quite a bit.
This project has started end of 2015 and has seen many conceptual changes in
the meantime. It started out as research project. After writing my master
theses on it, it was put down for
a few months until I picked at up again and currently am trying to push it to
usable software.
If you want to open a bug report, just type brig bug to get a readily filled template for you.
Documentation
All documentation can be found on ReadTheDocs.org.
Donations
If you're interested in the development and would think about supporting me
financially, then please contact me! If you'd like to
give me a small & steady donation, you can always use Liberapay:
Thank you!