Re: [Discuss] BTSync

2014-04-22 Thread Richard Pieri
Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: Well, according to the author Joey Hess, git-annex and git-annex assistant do synchronization, sort of like an open source Dropbox... so it doesn't do sync is subjective. It also handles arbitrarily large I didn't say that it doesn't do sync. I said that Git

Re: [Discuss] BTSync

2014-04-22 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:37:03PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: ... but what it does isn't sync. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:49:15AM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: I didn't say that it doesn't do sync. Must be a case of mass-halucination... -- Derek D. Martinhttp://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG

Re: [Discuss] BTSync

2014-04-22 Thread Richard Pieri
Derek Martin wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:37:03PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: ... but what it does isn't sync. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:49:15AM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: I didn't say that it doesn't do sync. Must be a case of mass-halucination... No, just you taking a phrase out

Re: [Discuss] BTSync

2014-04-21 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Also, on the proprietary side, there is a fairly new sync tool from BitTorrent, http://www.bittorrent.com/sync . Worth looking into but, as you point out, proprietary. I signed up for the beta before it was public, but as I learned more about it, I

Re: [Discuss] BTSync

2014-04-21 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I wouldn't trust BTSync for situations where encryption mattered, and if I want a sync tool to use inside my LAN for which I don't care about encryption, then I'd still rather use something open source. -Tom Git-annex and git-annex assistant are two useful (open source) tools for

Re: [Discuss] BTSync

2014-04-21 Thread Richard Pieri
Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: Git-annex and git-annex assistant are two useful (open source) tools for managing files with git. I haven't looked into them fully, but they seem useful and offer some encryption options: Git is a poor tool for file sync services. It's particularly bad with

Re: [Discuss] BTSync

2014-04-21 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.comwrote: Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: Git-annex and git-annex assistant are two useful (open source) tools for managing files with git. I haven't looked into them fully, but they seem useful and offer some encryption