Richard Pieri <[email protected]> wrote: >> At this point in time I've mostly given up on automated sync systems. >> Too many little problems for me to deal with.
Ditto. There's just not a lot of investment in creating home-user software like that; unison's still the best out there (but you have to monitor things reasonably closely). All the new software dev seems to be proprietary Cloud Services, ugh. (Disclaimer: I work for a Cloud Service. :-() What I've done to solve the I-mashed-the-power-button-on-a-server, or more often, I-want-to-apply-security-updates-or-reformat-the-O/S, problem is run glusterfs for certain personal directories and email spool. That works a lot better than the (other) sync tools but if I want encryption, or I want to handle a lot of files, glusterfs just royally sucks. It does a particular job pretty well, but that job is definitely not the all-purpose "store all the files I ever cared about" server sync that I really want. Each morning I ride my bike past the construction site where Dropbox is putting up a new office building. Right now it's a foundation, with some of the concrete pillars rising to 1st-floor height (out of 7 floors). Hopefully by the time it's built, they've created a service that I'd actually want to use... -rich _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
