For my personal & professional use I get by using Google Drive, or DropBox to sync things like PDFs that require no security to my iPad, or Android phone. For everything else I use version control, scp or rsync+ssh as needed. Still it would be really nice to have a secure private, automatic sync.
*Unison* You have made a strong case for unison. Unison advantages: - installation is easy and requirements are quite small - low memory use on server and devices - quick start of sync - efficient diff sync (+ compression?) - stable code base - works with large files and large number of files - clients for Linux, Windows, MacOS, Andriod and iOS ( i did not know! Wow!) How elaborate are your custom scripts for unison? I assume it just requires rsync and unison on the server? Is it automatic or do you initiate it? I've used unison for an ad-hoc sync between say a desktop or sever and a laptop or thumbdrive. That's seemed to be to be what it's really useful for. On the down side the last time I tried using it, it was a bit tricky to get the same version installed on everything and that mattered. Is https ftps file access from anywhere with login a requirement for you? multiple user support? Maybe those requirements would suggest ownCloud might be a better fit? *ownCloud* What about owncloud + docker? http://dischord.org/blog/2013/07/10/docker-and-owncloud/ https://github.com/fedora-cloud/Fedora-Dockerfiles/tree/master/owncloud Surely a node could also be doing mail routing, and webmail for a small number of users, along with light ftp, http, maybe also ldap. I give it a nod for some uses if it makes supporting multiple users easy. *Still it's non-free* and so while I might try it it does not make sense for one user. *BTSync* How much extra memory does this consume and is it choking on large files? How much slower is it? Can you limit bandwidth as with a good BT client? On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Richard Pieri <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/30/2014 8:06 AM, Matt Shields wrote: > > Did you try ownCloud? > > Yes. It's horrible. I mean, BTSync and Syncthing are single executables. > Start the daemon and you're syncing files. Bang, done. ownCloud requires > a full LAMP stack on a dedicated server and the associated > administrative overhead. > > I'm sure that ownCloud has a purpose but that purpose is not me keeping > files synchronized between my computers. > > -- > Rich P. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
