[plug] "Dropbox" like syncing to private servers

[Kai]

I'm interested to see how you go with this! :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim" <weirdit at gmail.com>
To: plug at plug.org.au
Sent: Thursday, 30 September, 2010 1:07:38 PM GMT +09:30 Darwin
Subject: Re: [plug] "Dropbox" like syncing to private servers

I have found something that looks promising. SparkleShare
http://sparkleshare.org/

I'll update with more after I do some testing. I still need to make
sure it can run headless.

Tim

On 29 September 2010 19:00, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
> Tim <weirdit at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Anyone have "Dropbox" or Ubuntu One style syncing to private servers?
>> I need some bzr repositories, and my Documents folder to by syncronised
>> between a number of machines that are intermittently connected to the net.
>
> Are you sure that you don't want to solve this with the tool you are already
> using, bzr?  It can do sync between the repositories, and handles conflicts
> and that sort of thing for you.  Plus, y'know, free backup for "oops" recovery
> purposes.
>
> Add something like FlashBake and you should have it transparently doing the
> commit part in your documents folder: http://bitbucketlabs.net/flashbake/
>
> (Er, flashbake is a git tool, but should be either easy to adapt, or emulate,
>  with whatever tool you prefer.  Add a dose of inocron or inoticoming and you
>  should be able to do build that yourself for instant action on changes.)
>
>
> Alternately, inosync or lsyncd provide real-time monitoring and activation for
> Linux hosts based on inotify.  You could use those to get real-time or
> quasi-real-time push from your clients to the central server.  Not so much
> with the two-way part though.
>
>
> That, sadly, is as close as you are going to get to Dropbox without doing some
> more custom work though.  Which is a touch sad.  (Also, AFAIK.  If someone can
> correct that I would love to hear about it. :)
>
>> I have a private server that they can all sync to, I just need the
>> software. Rsync is fine for one way backups.  Unison works for 2 way, but is
>> messy. Something like Dropbox is great, but I want it to my personal server
>> without using their servers.
>
> It does do local LAN sync when the hosts are there, but the data still hits
> their servers.  You /might/ get away with using encfs to protect the content,
> however, that then winds up on their systems, and still get mostly useful
> behaviour.  (It breaks their conflict resolution stuff a bit, sadly.)
>
>
> Sorry not to be more direct help,
>
> Regards,
>        Daniel
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