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That's why dropbox has lan sync: https://www.dropbox.com/help/137 https://www.dropbox.com/help/137

cbs 15y ago
That has a few big catches, including maintaining an internet connection and being in the same broadcast domain. And looks like it doesn't have lan-only drives, I maintain a box serving up samba shares specifically because the work files in a specific project work files would blow my bandwidth cap for the month in 2 round trips.
- dpark 15y ago
  > That has a few big catches, including maintaining an internet connection and being in the same broadcast domain. Are those actual big catches? Those seem like pretty reasonable constraints. What machine do you have attached to your LAN that can't access the internet? And the network restriction is probably just fine for >99% of their customers.
  - cbs 15y ago
    I know its not going to impact the vast majority of their users, so they don't have to care. For my uses, they're all pretty big. That's why I'm so happy to see a new product that may fit into those situations better. Not every computer is on a SOHO network, or a network with many properties of the same. The network I'm on most of the time is huge which means its heavily subnetted and no one user gets great throughput. My apartment has the aforementioned cap. My old man's place has no internet connection at all, just wifi for getting files to the media computer connected to the TV. By building a product that can serve these users, they'll have a product that can better serve users on ideal connections too!
    - dpark 15y ago
      I don't really see how this product makes any sense for the scenarios you're describing. This system still needs to be able to hit the Internet at reasonable speed, or else you get no offsite backup. It just becomes a network-attached hard drive, and if that's what you want, you can buy one at a better price with more storage (and it won't waste your bandwidth trying to be a "cloud" for your data or anyone else's data).
      - cbs 15y ago
        My original post was that this is a step in the right direction. From one thing I happened to mention, this thread took a tangent about dropbox's lan sync, but thats not specifically or only the area I care about. There is a place I'd like to see file storage tech to go, and we are inching towards it, but its not delivered with an off the shelf NAS box, dropbox or simple combination of the two.
        dpark 15y ago
        I guess I'm not clear what your ideal product would be. All of the scenarios you describe have very constrained bandwidth, which means that sync outside the LAN will always be crappy. It sounds like you either need NAS or peer-to-peer sync (something like Mesh or AeroFS).

cbs 15y ago

That has a few big catches, including maintaining an internet connection and being in the same broadcast domain. And looks like it doesn't have lan-only drives, I maintain a box serving up samba shares specifically because the work files in a specific project work files would blow my bandwidth cap for the month in 2 round trips.

dpark 15y ago
> That has a few big catches, including maintaining an internet connection and being in the same broadcast domain. Are those actual big catches? Those seem like pretty reasonable constraints. What machine do you have attached to your LAN that can't access the internet? And the network restriction is probably just fine for >99% of their customers.
- cbs 15y ago
  I know its not going to impact the vast majority of their users, so they don't have to care. For my uses, they're all pretty big. That's why I'm so happy to see a new product that may fit into those situations better. Not every computer is on a SOHO network, or a network with many properties of the same. The network I'm on most of the time is huge which means its heavily subnetted and no one user gets great throughput. My apartment has the aforementioned cap. My old man's place has no internet connection at all, just wifi for getting files to the media computer connected to the TV. By building a product that can serve these users, they'll have a product that can better serve users on ideal connections too!
  - dpark 15y ago
    I don't really see how this product makes any sense for the scenarios you're describing. This system still needs to be able to hit the Internet at reasonable speed, or else you get no offsite backup. It just becomes a network-attached hard drive, and if that's what you want, you can buy one at a better price with more storage (and it won't waste your bandwidth trying to be a "cloud" for your data or anyone else's data).
    - cbs 15y ago
      My original post was that this is a step in the right direction. From one thing I happened to mention, this thread took a tangent about dropbox's lan sync, but thats not specifically or only the area I care about. There is a place I'd like to see file storage tech to go, and we are inching towards it, but its not delivered with an off the shelf NAS box, dropbox or simple combination of the two.
      - dpark 15y ago
        I guess I'm not clear what your ideal product would be. All of the scenarios you describe have very constrained bandwidth, which means that sync outside the LAN will always be crappy. It sounds like you either need NAS or peer-to-peer sync (something like Mesh or AeroFS).