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No worries. I prefer hosting my own stuff and $9.99/mo seems a tad high when I can get a cheap yearly VPS or just block off some minimal resources on one of my existing boxes. I was previously using Monosnap - which is what my team members on Windows use - which does the same thing, but not as nice/fast as Dropshare.
Another DropShare user here, on both OS X and iOS.
It's a really nice tool, couldn't be happier after finally leaving CloudApp.
Dropshare + Pydio seems to be where I've landed. Thanks for all the advice guys!
I'm currently using Pydio as a frontend and syncthing for syncing the backend. I was using owncloud but decided to try out Pydio. I'm not sure which one is my favorite.
Unfortunately my own experiences proved me that performance and application-wise neither of the OP's preferences are close to what Dropbox offers.
I tried Owncloud, skipping Seafile because how it stores my files on the server wasn't my cup of tea. I got a lot of errors even on a vanilla installation and even after resolving those th performance turned out to be worse than I anticipated.
Also all of them running on PHP doesn't make it better. I wish they were standalone apps.
Sometimes there's no real good alternate for the paid software...
+1 Pyd.io
I like it better than OwnCloud
Don't use OwnCloud, it can't handle large files and worse, it could loose them.
How big are we talking? I have a lot of 2-3GB files in OwnCloud and have done for years with no issue.
Not sure about "uploaded only' but its close.
Yeah it's like that, didn't know Dropbox supports it.
Ignoring the fact that's a closed source software (which might be a good/bad point depends at who you ask), the fact that it "calls home" sending how many files are you syncing and other statistics, the fact that you can't run your own tracker (you can use direct connections but it becomes a bit annoying if you use many end-points), the real problem I encountered is that developers don't give a f*ck about compatibility / safe migrations. I was storing part of my data using BTSync v1, at sudden an automatic BTSync v2 update came and broke all the keys and syncing of existing shares. After that I started looking for another solution. Maybe it's my fault but I don't see why and automatic upgrade should break things like that without any notice.
Owncloud and pyd.io are written in PHP and can be run in a shared hosting environment. Seafile is divided in various components, the web part is in Python (Django) and I'm running it in fastcgi mode behind nginx.
A tool that maybe not many know about is: https://www.syncany.org
It's still in alpha version but I really like the features of it, it does automatic syncing of folders to remote storages with client-side encryption. As remote storage it supports Amazon S3, Dropbox, Flickr, FTP, Local, OpenStack Swift, Samba Plugin, SFTP, WebDAV and can be extended by writing custom plugins.
never used/heard syncany before, still i consider Java heavy that's why currently i'll stick with the bare rsync for now.
The only paid "closed" solution i might recommend is beyondcompare by "scootersoftware" this is the best code compare i came across and they have added sync "manual" jobs. i know i am getting out of topic and maybe this is my last comment on this topic but syncing will stick around for a long time until maybe a filesystem is doing this behind the scenes automatically.
The biggest problem I ever had with seafile is it's possible to corrupt a repo so badly that the recovery tool can't even revert it to a stable state.
It happened when I had a machine with an unstable storage backend (NFS share that went awol in the middle of writing) which is totally my fault and it's not happened since sorting the underlying storage problem.
At least with owncloud/pydio it's just storing files natively in the FS (Well it used to anyway, not checked latest ver) so although if the machine crashes you're likely to corrupt the file you were working on it's not likely to blow out the whole library.
I think that's because the data folder doesn't expect to work with a network mount which has a high risk of failing / stalling. I'm running the community version with the data folder on the (main) disk and with a daily incremental backup to an external storage.
With the professional edition (free up to 3 users), you can use AWS S3/Ceph RADOS as storage backends.
Yes, the fact that the files are in stored in blocks and not how they are might be considered a downside, but the good side of doing this is having data-deduplication. Also there is a tool which will allow you to mount the repo as FUSE mount: http://manual.seafile.com/extension/fuse.html
Swings and roundabouts, compared to the older versions of owncloud it's much better at dealing with large files or conversely lots of small files being synced. Since I solved the storage problem I've not had any issues with seafile.
I experienced this problem too with files even less than 1GB. If I remember correctly, this had to do with running on 32 bit systems.
Not my experience, I did multiple 1.x to 2.0 upgrades too.
A Synology DS with OpenVPN connection
Owncloud
I just stumbled upon a promo mail from
Varonis DatAnywhere
They are offering 5 users free for lifetime. Can anyone comment on this ?
They claim to be Enterprise grade! Though its Windows based only.
Datanywhere... Dat seems legit
I made myself a .bat and a .sh file to back up stuff via rsync. Very convenient and works on any OS. Now I just need to make an android app that does the same whenever I am connected fo Wi-Fi.
Care to share ?
I don't know how to make android apps lol
Or do you mean the rsync .sh and .bat? It's just the rsync command basically. On Windows I use "cygwin", which is a Linux command line for Windows that lets you use exactly the same script as you do on Linux (just adjust paths).
I use sshpass (sshpass -f /home/4n0nx/password rsync command here) to use it with a password.
The rsync command I think is
rsync -Pav /home/user/ [email protected]:/home/user/
I don't know how to use i with a key: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/127352/specify-identity-file-id-rsa-with-rsync
I'm keeping a close eye on this project. https://bitbucket.org/tshannon/freehold
Freehold-sync client is coming soon I guess, but the webapp is nice, including a light-weight office program that can do OpenDoc formats
Simple, just add
-e 'ssh -i .ssh/id_rsa'after your rsync options (Like yours -Pav) - Here its my RSA key or whatever key you have (DSA, ECDSA etc)Owncloud works very well for me and 10+ employees for many, many months now. Just to add another +1... :-)
Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but I found 'SparkleShare' wasn't too bad the last time I used it (likely about two years ago...)
I know I'm late to the party, but felt like I should throw my nickel out there... I really like OwnCloud. Being able to share files that are completely under my control is amazing. Many nice plugins available that add to the functionality of OwnCloud.
Amazon will extract and store the Exif data from the images even if you don't have dick pics in them
That could turn into some interesting suggestions on the storefront. "I see you like Canon cameras, check this bad boy out."
That's where we are heading and it's disturbing.
I guess that's one perspective. I'm totally alright with that. I've been really enjoying the smart advertisements on Amazon and Facebook lately.