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Chris Spackman <chris@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2015/07/21 at 02:59pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:09:38 +1000, wraeth wrote: |
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> > > > Have you tried Syncthing - http://syncthing.net/ ? |
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> > > No I haven't, but one of the main reasons for that is because I |
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> > > mostly bypassed online (read: not controlled by myself) services |
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> > > for any sort of syncing - I eyed a couple, but my primary thought |
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> > > was to retain proper control of my data. |
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> > Syncthing is peer-to-peer. You can use their discovery server (or |
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> > run your own) for clients to find one another, but data always takes |
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> > the direct route. However, it is only for syncing, if you need the |
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> > extra features, ownCloud works well. |
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> I have been using Syncthing also, for maybe a year now. It works well |
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> once you get it set up. Recently, the Android app (in F-Droid) has |
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> also been working well - for a while it couldn't find any of my |
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> machines. |
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> Like Neil said, though, Syncthing has no extra features - it just |
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> syncs between devices. The machines have to be online at the same time |
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> or no syncing happens, because there is no server in the middle to |
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> keep the data. Maybe because of this, I have had far fewer issues with |
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> conflicting file versions with Syncthing than I had with Dropbox. |
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> FWIW, I tried ownCloud a couple of times and could never get it up and |
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> running properly. |
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I have owncloud working just fine, although I don't use it for passwords |
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-- for those I just have a pgp key and individual files and I have an |
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iphone app which can decrypt them. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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