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I would have thought the personal replacement for Dropbox is just rsync. I guess it depends if you want / need full history. But personally I never use the hist

• mceachen 16y ago
  rsync isn't bidirectional (see unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/), but it can be hacked on to make it store snapshots (see http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/, but it's a full volume snapshot, not a per-file versioned history).
  • js2 16y ago
    Unison is a good bi-directional syncing utility: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
  • davidandgoliath 16y ago
    Appreciate the reminder re: unison. Just made my desktop <-> laptop syncs. a whole lot easier.
  • 320x200 15y ago
    Unison is great, I use it as a way to keep several machines in sync for large content (several gigs) using a personal server as hub. http://gitorious.org/mist http://gitorious.org/mist It's not a dropbox replacement, but it does the syncing job nice and simple with nothing else but unison, ssh and a shell script. I will eventually make a daemon using inotify so that it can sync in the background as well.
• deleted 16y ago
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• akent 16y ago
  This looks promising: https://github.com/philcryer/lipsync#readme https://github.com/philcryer/lipsync#readme
• pronoiac 16y ago
  Rsync doesn't work offline. Trying to send updates only would fail for differing timeclocks & deleted files.
• hyperbovine 16y ago
  History will save your ass at some point in the future. I'd bet money on it.