Saturday, June 13, 2009

Re: [BLUG] looking for an open source dropbox-like app

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Ben Shewmaker<ben@shewbox.org> wrote:
> I've been looking for backup/sync software recently and while I do like
> services like Dropbox, as I have my own website with server space, I'd love
> to have open source implementation.  Maybe it's just me, but the one thing I

[snip]

I use Dropbox for what I consider to be "non-private" files, e.g.
those that wouldn't cause me to panic if an evil h4x0r broke into
their servers.

I use a client called Jungle Disk as well. It uses Amazon S3 for the
actual storage, but it has the ability to allow you to create your own
encryption key. These files are encrypted before being sent to the
servers for storage. Jungle Disk also isn't as straightforward as
Dropbox, though.

>From their web page:

"To further re-enforce the idea that you are in control of your data,
we have made available open source code that can be used to browse and
download your data without even using Jungle Disk."

The client itself isn't open-source, but at least if they go south you
can still get to your data (it's stored on S3, after all).

--
Jeremy L. Gaddis
http://evilrouters.net/

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[BLUG] looking for an open source dropbox-like app

I've been looking for backup/sync software recently and while I do like services like Dropbox, as I have my own website with server space, I'd love to have open source implementation.  Maybe it's just me, but the one thing I don't like about these pay services is that I don't have complete control over the files I am syncing to their servers.  And since I am already paying a monthly fee for web hosting and I get plenty of hard drive space, why not set up my own service where I have more space and control?  So checking to see if anybody here knew of anything like dropbox for keeping files in sync. 

Ben