I'll have to check that out. As long as all the syncing action happens on local intranet traffic, that might work out---I don't want to burn through my bandwidth and get throttled / cut by my ISP!
On 03/19/2014 12:18 PM, Ronald Bynoe wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
