Installing Resilio Sync on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

I installed Resilio Sync after running into Dropbox’s device sync limit.
This guide uses Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Add the Resilio repository

Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/resilio-sync.list and register the Resilio repository.

$ echo "deb http://linux-packages.resilio.com/resilio-sync/deb resilio-sync non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/resilio-sync.list

Add the public key for the Resilio repository.

$ curl -LO http://linux-packages.resilio.com/resilio-sync/key.asc && sudo apt-key add ./key.asc

Update the package list.

$ sudo apt update

Install and configure Resilio Sync

Install the resilio-sync package.

$ sudo apt install resilio-sync

Recommended only when the server is behind a firewall. Allow Web UI access from every subnet.

# nano /etc/resilio-sync/config.json

Change "listen" : "127.0.0.1:8888" to "listen" : "0.0.0.0:8888".
After editing, the file looks like this:

{
    "storage_path" : "/var/lib/resilio-sync/",
    "pid_file" : "/var/run/resilio-sync/sync.pid",

    "webui" :
    {
        "listen" : "0.0.0.0:8888"
    }
}

Enable the resilio-sync service in systemd.
From now on, it will run automatically as the rslsync user when the system starts.

# systemctl enable resilio-sync

Start the resilio-sync service.

# systemctl start resilio-sync

Open http://localhost:8888/.

Enter the account to use for the Web UI, then set the device name. (The name set here cannot be changed later.)

Create a shared folder

Click the + button in the top-left of the Web UI and choose Standard Folder.

Because Resilio Sync runs with the rslsync user’s permissions, I created the folder under /home/rslsync.

Use the Read & Write key generated on the Key tab to add clients.

Client download
https://www.resilio.com/individuals-sync/