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SashiSashi Member

So a couple years ago I moved away from Dropbox and got my own VPS and set up owncloud.

While owncloud was good for my needs it was a killer on my bandwidth/upload speed because if a file was modified the whole file needs to be reuploaded.

I'm looking for an alternative to owncloud which is good for large binary files & documents that get modified often and only uploads the difference in the file.

I tried seafile but I didn't like the web interface.

Thanks :)

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  • What about Pydio (I don't know if it will do a difference upload/download)

  • @Sashi said:
    So a couple years ago I moved away from Dropbox and got my own VPS and set up owncloud.

    While owncloud was good for my needs it was a killer on my bandwidth/upload speed because if a file was modified the whole file needs to be reuploaded.

    I'm looking for an alternative to owncloud which is good for large binary files & documents that get modified often and only uploads the difference in the file.

    I tried seafile but I didn't like the web interface.

    Thanks :)

    Syncthing allows for block-level synchronization, but has no web interface for downloading.

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  • @StartledPhoenix said:
    Syncthing allows for block-level synchronization, but has no web interface for downloading.

    wouldn't it be trivial to just use any web-based file manager?

  • edited March 2015

    @Jonchun said:
    wouldn't it be trivial to just use any web-based file manager?

    One extra step :)

    Funny enough, if you tinker around with permissions... pydio works if you force syncthing to sync the pydio data folder where the files are stored.

  • @StartledPhoenix said:
    Funny enough, if you tinker around with permissions... pydio works if you force syncthing to sync the pydio data folder where the files are stored.

    Haha fair enough :P

    Have you used syncthing yourself?

  • edited March 2015

    @Jonchun said:
    Have you used syncthing yourself?

    Yeah, with a large number of files (2G+ videos) + Documents

    also: https://github.com/StartledPhoenix/saltstack-syncthing

    havent found time lately (this week is my reading week at school, and I have exams next week), but a few major bugs should be fixed soon. Ive got the fixes ready, just haven't actually tested them widely yet.

    edit:

    ah whatever, just committed the fixes. Still missing non-amd64 support, and support for OSes other than Ubuntu, but otherwise works

  • SashiSashi Member

    Thanks for all the responses. I think I'll go with BT Sync. All the other options require the client installation to have admin access while BT Sync doesn't.

    I want to install a sync client on my work laptop as I can sync over all my work stuff from my desktop over to the laptop but don't have the admin pass for it.

    Is BT Sync the only option?

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