Depending what the person's use case is, sometimes "good enough" is "good enough". I can deal with my wife or one of my kids mistakenly naming something with a bad character, because I only care that they can re-open it on their computer, not on mine. If they can save the file on a mac, and re-sync back to a mac, then we're good. Same goes for Windows to Windows or Linux to Linux. We rarely share files with each other and across platforms. It's mainly to keep a copy of what's on our computers offsite. The cost is also almost zero for me since I maintain my own servers for business. So I allocate a small VM in my business.
As far as the interrupted sync. So far it hasn't happened, and for a personal backup solution, I can deal with this and call it "good enough". If we had a disaster with one or all our computers and I managed to recover 99% of my files from my ownCloud setup, I'd be more than happy because of how little I've spent on the setup. Again, if this were a business solution, I would pay for something that's been proven and I know it's 100% solid. My work computer has both BackBlaze and I use DropBox Business. Matt On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <b...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > From: Matt Shields [mailto:m...@mattshields.org] > > > > So far have not had a single issue. > > I repeat the question: What happens if you interrupt the client or network > in the middle of a file transfer? What happens if you create a file with a > disallowed character in its name? > > Be sure to md5sum or something, before and after transfer, to ensure > you'll notice if anything unexpected occurs. > > Be sure to look at the filesystem of the platforms where the disallowed > character is disallowed. To see what appears there, if anything. > > > > My main reason for not using something like Synctuary, Dropbox, etc is > > this: https://www.conceptblossom.com/pricing I would rather write a > > custom rsync (or something else for Win) script to automatically sync my > > personal files rather than pay for something. > > Synctuary is free for up to 3 users. Although the OP specifically asked > about linux, and I admit the linux Synctuary client isn't as good as it > should be. Ubuntu only, and sometimes crashes. > > But never causes data loss, which is more than I can say for the > competition. > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
