I have a family. But if I didn't, there's still the problem of multiple
computers and Android devices. rsync is great for keeping two computers
up to date but what if you have a desktop and a laptop and a tablet and
a phone and there are some documents you want to read/write on all of
those devices? At the very least I would use unison for bidirectional
syncing, not rsync.
Dropbox is a solution for the multi-platform multi-device file sharing
part (if you trust them), but Owncloud offers groupware too. And a
CalDAV server and a CardDAV server. My calendar and address book on all
of my devices sync with my personal Owncloud server, not Google. On
Linux, I use Thunderbird for this with the Lightning and CardDav
plugins. It has other applications, but those are the ones that are the
most crucial and empowering to me.
On 06/19/2017 04:03 PM, Mike Small wrote:
"Rich Braun" <[email protected]> writes:
...
Even with all that, though, this looks like something I should've pursued back
in 2013 when I first heard the software title Owncloud. If you've got trust
issues and "don't love the Cloud", read about it!
SDF (the shell provider not the Syrian resistance group) offers owncloud
or maybe its successor, but I haven't yet had a problem I thought it
would be the solution for, so haven't looked into it. The trouble I have
is that the only people I can think of I'd share files with this way
would only go along with it if I used Dropbox instead. It's a similar
kind of problem to what prevents me from ever encrypting any of my
email.
For files I don't share but sync between machines I figured rsync (using
rsync directly? do Dropbox and owncloud use rsync under the covers? do
the rsync authors ever get a $ or stock tip for their work backing
Dropbox if so?) has a richer set of options and is more flexible.
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