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Anyone coming up with a personal equivalent to Dropbox? as in same simple interface, but storage is a multi-terabyte box at your home/office (instead of a few g

Anyone coming up with a personal equivalent to Dropbox? as in same simple interface, but storage is a multi-terabyte box at your home/office (instead of a few gigabytes "out there")?

speedracr 15y ago
http://www.syncany.org/ http://www.syncany.org/ looks promising but - like many OS projects - lost some steam after the founder took on a full-time job.
kenrikm 15y ago
If memory serves one of the YC companies was doing exactly this, however I forget the name.
ImprovedSilence 15y ago
I haven't tried or used this, but you could try implementing your own version of sparkleshare: http://sparkleshare.org/ http://sparkleshare.org/ It's open source, and uses git to backup files. Not sure how close to your needs it is, but I'm sure there's other stuff a google search away.
aresant 15y ago
http://www.aerofs.com/ http://www.aerofs.com/
- huhtenberg 15y ago
  This assumes their software can be installed on the storage box.
epikur 15y ago
I haven't used it, but there's Pogoplug and/or its software: https://pogoplug.com/ https://pogoplug.com/
adrr 15y ago
I use Transmit and Amazon's s3. Not the best but works well for storing photos. Cost me about $1 a month.
yelloweye 15y ago
you can check this app http://www.tonido.com/app_sync_home.html http://www.tonido.com/app_sync_home.html
pella 15y ago
https://www.cubby.com https://www.cubby.com Cubby - LogMeIn product .. 5Gb Free Cloud + "Unlimited peer-to-peer (P2P) syncing means no storage limits when you're syncing between your own computers. Storage limits only apply to cubbies that are synced to the cloud." https://www.cubby.com/faq https://www.cubby.com/faq
- pella 15y ago
  "LogMeIn Prepares To Take On Dropbox & Box With Launch Of Cloud Storage Service Cubby" http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/logmein-prepares-to-take-on-dropbox-box-with-launch-of-cloud-storage-service-cubby/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/logmein-prepares-to-take-on...
notspanishflu 15y ago
http://owncloud.org/ http://owncloud.org/
moheeb 15y ago
My home machine has a hard drive??

Anyone coming up with a personal equivalent to Dropbox? as in same simple interface, but storage is a multi-terabyte box at your home/office (instead of a few gigabytes "out there")?

speedracr 15y ago

http://www.syncany.org/ http://www.syncany.org/ looks promising but - like many OS projects - lost some steam after the founder took on a full-time job.

kenrikm 15y ago

If memory serves one of the YC companies was doing exactly this, however I forget the name.

ImprovedSilence 15y ago

I haven't tried or used this, but you could try implementing your own version of sparkleshare: http://sparkleshare.org/ http://sparkleshare.org/ It's open source, and uses git to backup files. Not sure how close to your needs it is, but I'm sure there's other stuff a google search away.

aresant 15y ago

http://www.aerofs.com/ http://www.aerofs.com/

huhtenberg 15y ago
This assumes their software can be installed on the storage box.

epikur 15y ago

I haven't used it, but there's Pogoplug and/or its software: https://pogoplug.com/ https://pogoplug.com/

adrr 15y ago

I use Transmit and Amazon's s3. Not the best but works well for storing photos. Cost me about $1 a month.

yelloweye 15y ago

you can check this app http://www.tonido.com/app_sync_home.html http://www.tonido.com/app_sync_home.html

pella 15y ago

https://www.cubby.com https://www.cubby.com Cubby - LogMeIn product .. 5Gb Free Cloud + "Unlimited peer-to-peer (P2P) syncing means no storage limits when you're syncing between your own computers. Storage limits only apply to cubbies that are synced to the cloud." https://www.cubby.com/faq https://www.cubby.com/faq

pella 15y ago
"LogMeIn Prepares To Take On Dropbox & Box With Launch Of Cloud Storage Service Cubby" http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/logmein-prepares-to-take-on-dropbox-box-with-launch-of-cloud-storage-service-cubby/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/logmein-prepares-to-take-on...

notspanishflu 15y ago

http://owncloud.org/ http://owncloud.org/

moheeb 15y ago

My home machine has a hard drive??