Chris Spackman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015/07/21 at 02:59pm, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:09:38 +1000, wraeth wrote:
>
> > > > Have you tried Syncthing - http://syncthing.net/ ?
>
> > > No I haven't, but one of the main reasons for that is because I
> > > mostly bypassed online (read: not controlled by myself) services
> > > for any sort of syncing - I eyed a couple, but my primary thought
> > > was to retain proper control of my data.
>
> > Syncthing is peer-to-peer. You can use their discovery server (or
> > run your own) for clients to find one another, but data always takes
> > the direct route. However, it is only for syncing, if you need the
> > extra features, ownCloud works well.
>
> I have been using Syncthing also, for maybe a year now. It works well
> once you get it set up. Recently, the Android app (in F-Droid) has
> also been working well - for a while it couldn't find any of my
> machines.
>
> Like Neil said, though, Syncthing has no extra features - it just
> syncs between devices. The machines have to be online at the same time
> or no syncing happens, because there is no server in the middle to
> keep the data. Maybe because of this, I have had far fewer issues with
> conflicting file versions with Syncthing than I had with Dropbox.
>
> FWIW, I tried ownCloud a couple of times and could never get it up and
> running properly.
I have owncloud working just fine, although I don't use it for passwords
-- for those I just have a pgp key and individual files and I have an
iphone app which can decrypt them.
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