Did you try ownCloud? It's a self-hosted replacement for Dropbox. They even have some built in apps, so I can use the web interface when I don't have my computer or phone to log in and edit documents similar to Google Apps.
Matt On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > At this point in time I've mostly given up on automated sync systems. > Too many little problems for me to deal with. > > I dropped Dropbox a while back because, quite frankly, there's about > zero security to it. Anything based on third-party cloud storage is > automatically on my non-starter list these days, especially after the > Code Spaces breach. > > I like the idea of BitTorrent Sync, how it goes about synchronizing > arbitrary directories. The startup times and memory footprint, however, > make it a poor tool for large-scale synchronization. By "large" I mean > half-TB worth of data and hundreds of thousands of files on up. > > I gave Syncthing a try now that it's moved beyond the "don't use this in > production" phase. I won't use it for real. It synchronizes nodes, not > directories, and continuously spews error messages when any node in the > group doesn't synchronize all directories under Syncthing control. The > developer (one guy) says that's how it's supposed to work. I say that it > a flawed design because I don't want to sync 600GB of data to my 16GB > tablet. The developer says that he isn't changing Syncthing's behavior > so I say that I'm not using Syncthing. > > As of this week I'm back to Unison and some little wrapper scripts. > Nothing -- still -- does sync as well, as fast, and as securely as Unison. > > -- > Rich P. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss