Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:31:54 -0500 From: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> To: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD Message-ID: <576E19BBB43046C20D0A7569@[192.168.1.50]> In-Reply-To: <-2463274290818790909@unknownmsgid> References: <20140215070812.0f1c582f@scorpio> <CA%2BQLa9DN0GKWUztaL7JT8w6RXAT9AqSB9Fr-tt%2BmjQ2P210FgA@mail.gmail.com> <535E7B497FB3E9EC90C01F28@192.168.1.50> <CA%2BQLa9AntuUHic67dHKpV-zcW7Xn-J1xR2pD3PJM6iMAt5km-Q@mail.gmail.com> <-2463274290818790909@unknownmsgid>
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--As of February 17, 2014 10:02:26 AM -0600, Matthew Pherigo is alleged to have said: > Although tarsnap is great, I don't believe it's a file syncing > solution - only a backup solution. > > --Matt Yeah - I'm a long-time fan of tarsnap as well, but it would be a very bad choice for this application. Tarsnap keeps a local cache of metadata to keep track of what it's backed up and what is in what blocks - and getting that cache out of sync with the server causes some weird issues from what I understand. It's fixable, but it would be a lot of overhead if you were trying to use it to sync two machines. Daniel T. Staal >> 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------
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