On 15 May 2015, at 5:04, Thomas Floeren wrote:
On 15 May 2015, at 2:55, Christian Hopps <cho...@gmail.com> wrote:
Multi-system cross-platform access and searching.
My imap-email has been my "cloud" like storage for a lot longer than
the
phrase "store it in cloud" has existed. :)
Hmm. For this purpose I still would rather keep my mail box tiny
(current & recent stuff) and drobbox-sync my old archives across the
platforms. (replace "dropbox' with the service of your choice)
I had a slightly different take here 5 years ago. I found myself
working in 3 different locations, with access to shared Windows PCs.
Yes I could access my mail through a webmail interface using those PCs
but it was a slow and clunky experience, so I created a password
protected website where I could attach files to posts, search the
contents etc and hey presto I had my own "private cloud". This was
using Drupal 6; Drupal 7 was too resource intensive for my then laptop.
For backups I had cronjobs running on the ISP host which dumped the
MySQL database(s) and created a tarball of the directories, and another
job on my home system which grabbed those backups.
If you have a suitable desktop or server at home which is reachable from
the outside world, there's no reason why you can't do the same, and skip
the hosting ISP bit.
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