Syncany is an open-source cloud storage and filesharing application.
It allows users to backup and share certain folders of their
workstations using any kind of storage, e.g. FTP, Amazon S3 or Google
Storage. While the basic idea is similar to Dropbox and JungleDisk,
Syncany is open-source and additionally provides data encryption and
more flexibility in terms of storage type and provider:
* Local Folder: uses any local folder as storage. This could be
any mounted device, network file systems (NFS), or any virtual file
system based on FUSE.
* FTP: uses an FTP folder as remote repository.
* IMAP: uses an IMAP folder as remote storage. Stores file chunks
as e-mail attachments.
* Google Storage: uses a bucket in the Google Storage service as repository.
* Amazon S3: uses a bucket in the Amazon Simple Storage Service as
remote storage.
* Rackspace Cloud Files: uses a Cloud Files container as remote storage.
* WebDAV: uses one folder in a WebDAV as remote storage.
* Picasa: encodes the file chunks in images, and uses a Picasa
album as repository.
* Windows Share (NetBIOS/CIFS): uses a Windows share as data repository.
* more to come ...
Syncany is only available for Linux right now (still unstable) and
comes with Nautilus integration already as well as something that it's
author describes as "perfect versioning" which allows you to restore
older version of a file, even if the file has been renamed."
Reference:
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/syncany-great-dropbox-alternative-which.html
http://www.syncany.org/
Chris...
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