Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:02:26 -0600 From: Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com> To: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD Message-ID: <-2463274290818790909@unknownmsgid> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BQLa9AntuUHic67dHKpV-zcW7Xn-J1xR2pD3PJM6iMAt5km-Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140215070812.0f1c582f@scorpio> <CA%2BQLa9DN0GKWUztaL7JT8w6RXAT9AqSB9Fr-tt%2BmjQ2P210FgA@mail.gmail.com> <535E7B497FB3E9EC90C01F28@192.168.1.50> <CA%2BQLa9AntuUHic67dHKpV-zcW7Xn-J1xR2pD3PJM6iMAt5km-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Although tarsnap is great, I don't believe it's a file syncing solution - only a backup solution. --Matt > On Feb 17, 2014, at 12:29 AM, Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, you would need to host it somewhere that has git installed and > ssh. That's not too tall of an order. > > There is one commercial service that does support a FreeBSD native client: > http://www.tarsnap.com/ > >> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> wrote: >> --As of February 15, 2014 3:02:13 PM -0500, Robert Simmons is alleged to >> have said: >> >>>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> I use Dropbox and Windows SkyDrive, soon to be renamed OneDrive, >>>> extensively. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a version >>>> available for FreeBSD. These are listed on the site: >>>> >>>> Ubuntu (.deb) 64-bit 32-bit >>>> Fedora (.rpm) 64-bit 32-bit >>>> Debian (.deb) 64-bit 32-bit >>>> Compile from source >>>> >>>> there are a few "Dropbox" ports; however, I am looking for something that >>>> works the same way across different platforms; ie Windows and FreeBSD. Do >>>> the Dropbox ports do that? If not, has anyone tried to use one of the >>>> "Dropbox" distributions on FreeBSD? >>> >>> >>> Another option would be to add Sparkleshare to the ports collection: >>> >>> http://www.sparkleshare.net/ >>> >>> https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare >> >> >> --As for the rest, it is mine. >> >> Owncloud - already in the ports collection - would be an option too. It has >> more features than just folder sync, but you can ignore them if you want. >> ;) (For that matter, you could run rsync to get the same effect... On ZFS >> with snapshots if you want to be able to roll back.) >> >> But either of these would require running a server someplace. I'm not sure >> what commercial solutions there are that have a FreeBSD client. (Hmm. A >> private project on Github?) >> >> Daniel T. Staal >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you >> are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use >> the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will >> expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, >> whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of >> local copyright law. >> --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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