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I wrote it days before.
http://tanvps.com/vps/255.html
Though with a box.net account (not sure if they're still doing the 50GB promotion), you could hack up a connection via WebDAV on the linux VPS, and sync to it without having to keep the content on the VPS itself.
Does box.net already have a decent client for Android, Mac and Windows?
@djvdorp for android, iOS yes, sorta ok for Windows 8 metro (treated like a tablet app). They don't have a desktop app per se like dropbox unless you pay for some kind of business version.
I got 50GB with mine back when they were having a promotion on signing up to box.net via iOS, which I then was able to also install onto my android phone, and windows 8 (as a modern app). (though I find it odd that dropbox doesn't have a windows 8 modern UI app yet, but guess thats where the "all my storage" app comes in).
box.net works fine mobile-wise, sucks if you're trying to get it on a desktop environment. I mainly like it because it's literally remote storage, you don't have to keep a copy on the local machine.
By the way here's a small write up on mounting box.net onto an unbuntu system. http://blog.nguyenvq.com/2011/12/08/mount-box-net-on-ubuntu-linux-via-webdav/
PS: I'm gona try the dropbox method mentioned above on FreeBSD (via linux binary compatibility) and see if that works. (they don't have a freebsd version of dropboxd yet).
Edit: No Go, it's not an ELF binary, it's a POSIX shell script.
i'm using this bash script. Supports multipart uploads and many more features
:P on the FreeBSD side, I'll refrain from installing the BASH shell if I can help it :P
If I remember correct, theres a guide on the dropbox site about how you get it to work.
I did it once as a test and if I can do it, anyone can do it.
dropbox supports Ubuntu Desktop OS
what's so bad about bash
@corey , least on FreeBSD: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AvoidingLinuxisms , http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-users/shells.html
Also bash itself is large and slow (hence why some distros like ubuntu, debian etc migrated to dash), also most of the task/script/etc designed for BSD are usually designed for /bin/sh or /bin/csh, not /usr/local/bin/bash.
though I think the biggest reason bash isn't included by default on FreeBSD is due to it's GPLv3 licensing, as opposed to BSD licensing
@kbeezie Bash seems pretty fast to me when I use it.
Those links didn't say anything bad about bash.. just said make sure you aren't using bash commands because there isn't bash on there, and In the event of a problem the file systems
DropBox is definitely useful with the dropbox_uploader.sh script and especially as it supports multipart uploads as @marrco mentioned.
Though even less than the 2GB DropBox offers, StrongSpace.com have a free 1GB SFTP plan which is also very useful.