The data are encoded on the client side (no privacy problem), cut in pieces and sent to various storages (which can be yours!). Syncany reuses the Free Nautilus integration written by Dropbox but adds a versioning system that can even deal with file renaming.

Using a versioning system (bazaar, mercury, git, ...) on a server you own provides the same advantages but requires 1) a server (hardware + electric consumption), 2) the knowledge about how to setup it. For non-critical data (the only service may still ditch them!) such as backups, Syncany is a cool project.

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