How to transform the Raspberry Pi into your personal cloud, for secure file access anywhere

Tonido lets you transform a PC (spare, or otherwise) into a web server so you can securely access your 

files from anywhere, share content with friends, and stream music over the internet. You can expand the 

software’s functionality by installing plug-ins, and there are free apps available for iPhone, Android, 

BlackBerry and Windows Phone.

The company has also just introduced Tonido Personal Cloud Server for Raspberry Pi, so you can now turn 

your credit card sized device into a personal cloud, and remotely access all the files held on any storage 

connected to it.

The software is free and will run on Raspbian or Raspbmc OS. The instructions for getting up and running 

are very straightforward:

sudo mkdir /usr/local/tonido

cd /usr/local/tonido

sudo wget http://patch.codelathe.com/tonido/live/installer/armv6l-rpi/tonido.tar.gz

sudo tar-zxvf tonido.tar.gz

./tonido.sh start

 Open the Tonido website by going to http://:10001 and follow the setup instructions. You can set Tonido to 
start automatically when the Pi boots, which you'll probably want to do.

Everything you need, including the software and additional setup instructions can be found here.

For more on the Pi, check out our article on what happens when you overclock a Raspberry Pi to 1.5GHz.