Re: [Peterboro] Local "cloud" backup for portablde devices

2016-10-17 Thread Russell Armstong via Peterboro
Hi all, This is something I recently setup on my home NAS server and using the Bittorrent sync server on the NAS and the Bittorrent sync client on a mix of Android and iOS devices to transparently backup photos and videos. We are also judging it to share photos with family instead of Dropbox.

Re: [Peterboro] Local "cloud" backup for portablde devices

2016-10-17 Thread Michele Mor via Peterboro
Hi. I would try to setup a raspberry pi as a server, the pi is cheap and memory card are not that expensive, obviously it all depends on how much data you need to keep. Michele On Monday, October 17, 2016, Phil Thompson via Peterboro < peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > Anyone have any good

[Peterboro] Local "cloud" backup for portablde devices

2016-10-17 Thread Phil Thompson via Peterboro
Anyone have any good experiences or thoughts to share on a "local cloud" device to allow the increasingly unwired user to backup their stuff. Obviously there are genuine cloud based services, but some are very limited or expensive and there's always the upload speed issue (not to mention

Re: [Peterboro] Local "cloud" backup for portablde devices

2016-10-17 Thread Jonathan Steel via Peterboro
On Mon 17 Oct 2016 at 20:12, Russell Armstong via Peterboro wrote: > Another option is syncthing which looks to do same thing and is open > source. I will be looking at this to see if it can replace Resilio Sync for > us. +1 for syncthing; I use it on my families android phones, desktops/laptops

Re: [Peterboro] Local "cloud" backup for portablde devices

2016-10-17 Thread Russell Armstong via Peterboro
Apologies, my previous reply doesn't make a lot of sense (I was typing it on a tiny Android keyboard with word prediction/mangle). Bitorrent Sync will do exactly what you want. We have Resilio Sync (as it is now known) on our FreeNAS home server with Sync clients on Android and iOS devices. The