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For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN
by diego_sandoval 1y ago
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. [1]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- _joel 1y agoIt's quite trivial
- mmh0000 1y ago<beep beep sarcasm detected> But, for anyone on a site literally called "Hacker News", a DIY dropbox should be trivial. The fact that anybody, especially, "nerds" or "hackers" would pay good money for what is effectively an FTP server with file versioning is insane. I am mostly jealous that I didn't build and sell dropbox. Becoming an overnight millionaire by setting up an FTP server. But seriously, modern approach, rclone[1] + "cloud" stoage (webdav, ssh, wasabi, whatever) [1] https://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/
- wkat4242 1y agoWhat Dropbox does well though is on demand sync. Having frequently accessed files stored and synced locally and offline available while keeping most of the files off the limited harddrive space. Other options like OneDrive don't have such capability on Linux or are not available there at all. It's very hard to find a suitable alternative especially a European one.
- homebrewer 1y agoToo many moving parts, just use syncthing, it will also get you Android support and efficient synchronization across multiple nodes.