A personal anecdote about owncloud. A few months back, I had a mild interest in a synchronized set of files shared between my Android phone, Ubuntu Desktop and Laptop . I tried owncloud because it was opensource, I could install on my own (rented) server, and not involve any more parties. It installed easily on my server (site5.com).
I quit working on owncloud when the Android app refused to work because I did not have a real (not self signed) SSL certificate on my server, and I was too cheap to spring for one. There is still a question in my mind about sharing the files on Android. On Android each app has it's own Userid and so sharing files between apps is not possible by default. Some places in the file system are public by default (like /tmp on our systems) , so maybe that is the all that Android owncloud synchronizes the server. Most of the stuff in the public areas on my Android are like yesterday's newspaper; I probably won't ever want to see it again, but if I ever do, I can just get it back from the source. So I don't want yesterday's newspaper copied over my cellphone or even wifi connection. That's were I am, and all I know. I hope it was worth your while to read. -- Pat On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Robert Miesen <[email protected]>wrote: > I looked at both solutions and it's really looking like owncloud will > not only solve the data synchronization issue, but will also solve the > calendar synchronization issue I've had for a long time. > > Thank you Michael and Roland for your suggestions: both these tools > should prove quite useful in the near and far futures! > > > On 03/19/2014 04:05 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:13:43PM -0700, Robert Miesen wrote: > >> I have several machines---two Linux machines, one Windows 7 machine, and > >> one Windows 7 Virtual Machine hosted on one of the two Linux machines in > >> the setup. I am wanting to mirror a set of folders on all of these > >> machines and have any changes I make to this set of folders synced with > >> the other machines. > > As Roland suggested btsync - your own private bit torrent sync - is > worthy > > of consideration. > > > > Also consider "owncloud" it's like self hosting your own dropbox service. > > > > Both of these offer near real time synchronization. You can also set > them to > > not delete files deleted on another box so a rm -rf won't cause a > cascading > > disaster. > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 P.O. Box 581 Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
