dropbox like functionality

scio · 2009-10-07 13:08:35

crankyadmin wrote:

VPS + Unison = Free Open Source Drop Box clone.
I've been doing it for years. And never failed me once.
EDIT: My VPS costs me $15 a month for 50Gb

Unison uses exactly what I was talking about before, remote shell or socket. However it requires a server, and then a star topology for more than 2 machines.
It seems like a DVCS backend to unison might be a good place to start if someone wanted a quick way to start doing this. However, I don't know much about OCaml, and I think starting from a distributed approach might lead to better results.

As iphitus said though, the real nice parts about dropbox are the sharing and web ui.

dalingrin · 2009-10-07 14:32:24

Rsync could be replaced by any other file transfer mechanism. As others have stated, the push could send the list of changes and the client would transfer those files. If security allows, you could just transfer files with SCP.

Vintendo · 2009-10-07 16:51:39

take a look at this: http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build … box-clone/

scio · 2009-10-07 18:18:12

Essentially, what we thought of here. Again though, requires a server. I would still like to look into making a distributed version that is server-less just for file syncing.

toad · 2009-10-07 18:26:07

Thank you, vintendo. I'll give that a try as it appears to fit the specs I set out in the OP.

dalingrin · 2009-10-07 19:35:14

scio wrote:

Essentially, what we thought of here. Again though, requires a server. I would still like to look into making a distributed version that is server-less just for file syncing.

My suggestions were in reference to what the OP wanted.

Vintendo wrote:

take a look at this: http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build … box-clone/

Thats perfect.

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scio · 2009-10-08 01:39:38

dalingrin wrote:

My suggestions were in reference to what the OP wanted.

Any my comment was in response to the post before, it:

Vintendo wrote:

take a look at this: http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build … box-clone/
Thats perfect.

I understand these fit the OP's request, they are all just similar to what we have been discussing.

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