Re: [PLUG] Personal Cloud

2016-03-15 Thread Charles Sliger
It's like a Network-Attached-Storage unit that also runs a cloud protocol stack. I've seen them at places like Frys. -- -chaz Charles Sliger "No matter where you go... There you are... Buckaroo Banzai" On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 17:55 -0500, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Charles Slige

Re: [PLUG] Personal Cloud

2016-03-11 Thread Louis Kowolowski
I’ve been using ownCloud as a FreeNAS plugin for a number of years. It works quite nicely. I also have things setup such that I can use a VPN (to my house) and ownCloud will keep things in sync between my laptop and desktop. Its quite convenient. From a security perspective, I’d suggest not exp

Re: [PLUG] Personal Cloud

2016-03-11 Thread Brian Stanaland
We run OwnCloud at work. It's great. One thing that's great for us is we can share a file with a customer and set an expiration on it. Brian On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Roderick Anderson wrote: > I run ownCloud on a RaspberryPI. Uses a 32 GiB micro SD card in a SD to > USB adapter for the

Re: [PLUG] Personal Cloud

2016-03-11 Thread Roderick Anderson
I run ownCloud on a RaspberryPI. Uses a 32 GiB micro SD card in a SD to USB adapter for the ownCloud files. And just the normal 8 GiB micro SD card for the OS. Works quite nice. 32 GiB is kind of small if you're going to put you video and music library on it :-) but is is 16 times more space

Re: [PLUG] Personal Cloud

2016-03-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Charles Sliger wrote: > Does anyone have experience with using a personal cloud box? The phrase "personal cloud box" doesn't have a clear meaning to me. Are you talking about a cloud-hosted virtual machine? A version of OpenStack you run at home? It'd help me to understand

Re: [PLUG] Personal Cloud

2016-03-11 Thread Evans Tucker
I run my own Fedora 23 server for file sharing, WWW, etc., but I've been tempted to install https://owncloud.org/ - it's more friendly, and seems to be marketed as a private cloud on your hardware at home... That being said, I haven't actually used it. On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Charles Slig

[PLUG] Personal Cloud

2016-03-11 Thread Charles Sliger
Does anyone have experience with using a personal cloud box? I'm thinking it might be a way to allow accessing email and other things from multiple platforms (phone, tablet, desktop, etc), while keeping the data on private systems. -- -chaz Charles Sliger "No matter where you go... There you are..