That the moment you use it to sync between linux and macOS or LinuxĪnd Windows (which have different case sensitivity per default, although it’s a long story) stuff goes horribly wrong. That’s right, this app works beautifully, smoothly and easily except Syncing between case insensitive and case sensitive file systems isīroken and can delete data. Versions and guaranteeing consistent snapshots and so on is not a Syncthing also has file versioning and such, but cryptographic signing of There is a CLI syncthing manager for remote cloud instances, ![]() Then the other file can be shared between various peers to ensure they have similar sync lists. ![]() Pro tip: in fact, it is better to put these in another file and to #include that file from. I find it is better to set the following files However, there is now a facility to share data to untrusted hosts: Some faceless third party who may or may not have acceptable confidentiality practice. Have to worry about a whole other copy of your data sitting unencrypted on a server owned by Note that, if any of your machines are compromised your attacker Only nodes you have explicitly allowed can connect to your Every node is identified by a strong cryptographicĬertificate. Includes perfect forward secrecy to prevent any eavesdropper from everĪuthenticated. There is no central server that might be compromised, legallyĮncrypted. None of your data is ever stored anywhere else than on yourĬomputers. It doesn’t support archiving stuff to USB keys or semi-offline stores, or multiple copies of the same folder on one machine. Granularity is per-folder-per-machine - each shared folder (and all sub folders) is a separate share. It is mostly simple and friendly to use in practice, although I spent a long timeįeeling intimidated by the manual before just diving in and finding that out. Machines, studio backup machines and gig machines. I use this for synchronising my music production files across my studio You don’t need a server and thus youĪre happy for syncing to happen if and when the peers are online.Īnd you don’t mind wasting a few CPU cycles. Shared to various different machines, and you would like many of theĭifferent machines to be able to edit them. Pro tip: some of these options can be made easier to set up if one used a VPN from the house, maybe even a cheeky mesh-vpn system like tailscale.Ĭhoose this if… You have a collection of various folders that you need encrypting myįiles to inhibit potential Dropbox data mining, and by using alternative clients that Or I can use some hacks to make Dropbox less awful, by e.g. Taking it further, how about everything be My computers are not simultaneously online. I then have no 3rd party helping me, which is a plus and a minus. no special server at all) is one robust option and I do a lot of this. How can I get something like Dropbox without all the security holes and creepy behaviour? Suffice it to say, I am not keen to opt in to their nonsense. TBH I am not so excited I can be bothered going in to seeing if it is still happening or not Historically the dropbox client app used to do all manner of suspicious things to further undermine my trust Įnough suspicious things that I will never trust them. However well-intention it may be, it does not change the fact that this is by nature not secure, and increases the risk that my stuff will be exposed in a breach, or sent to whichever agency would like to read it in whichever jurisdiction has the weakest protection for confidentiality. These services creepily read my documents in the name of convenience. ![]() Same goes for the Google and Microsoft options. Unsatisfactory, being hamstrung by technical and legal shortcomings. However, Dropbox’s solution, as groundbreaking as it was, is also They invented a thing which keeps the files locally and syncs them with your co-workers online. Realising this is why the Dropbox founders are now rich. Purely cloud-based network drives just aren’t awesome at fast or distributed work. How great is this 1889 fax machine? How slow is progress? (Sorrt, I have no further metadata because Internet archive took their content off Flickr)
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