Have you taken a look at Bittorrent Sync? Although not entirely OSS, it is entirely self-hosted, so no capacity limits or costs, also it has slick Linux and Android clients!
I'd recommend at least evaluating it, I'm looking at using it to replace my dependence on Dropbox. It has the versioning and efficient network distribution that I need. On Mar 19, 2014 12:13 PM, "Robert Miesen" <robert.mie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > 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. It is highly unlikely that data will change on two > machines at the same time, since I'm the only one using them and, when > I'm using more than one, they are always connected to the same intranet. > > I was thinking of using some combination of rsync and NFS to get the job > done, but I am curious if anyone here has any better ideas before I get > too involved in setting this up. > > One thing that will only work as a last resort is Samba protocol > (Windows network-sharing protocol). I say this because whenever I use > this setup, Samba invariably fails and when Samba fails, it destabilizes > any Linux machine attached to it to the point that I am forced to > restart the Linux machine, and usually the Windows machine in question > as well. > > Thanks in advance for your advice! > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
