Looks promising. Once they have a formal release I'll give it a try. I've been longing for a stand alone version of dropbbox/jungledisk that I could host myself. I use both and am reasonably have with them. I've had pleasant results with Jungledisk Server and Workgroup versions at work.
-Chris On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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... > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
