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Subject : Re: LUG: Rsync.net

From : Richard Carter <rwcarter@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:06:07 -0500

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I use Dropbox to sync between my computers; it has very well-written clients for Windows, Linux and Mac. I believe their paid plans are overpriced, but I use the free 2gb. I've found that by being frugal with my space and not storing too many large files, that 2gb of space is plenty. Also if you use the following link, you'll start out with 2.25gb; each friend you refer, you and your friend get an extra free 250mb.

https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTM1MjIwNjk

It has also come in handy for group projects, as you can create a shared folder and changes to files are replicated automatically and instantly. Unfortunately, since it is so automatic, you have to be clear on who is editing what, or else Dropbox resolves conflicts by making a copy and storing one person's changes in the original file and another person's changes in the copy; then it's even more of a pain to try and figure out which file to keep or how to merge them. But anyway, it does backup and synchronization very well.

I might also recommend JungleDisk. I wish there was a free alternative to JungleDisk so that you only had to pay the Amazon fees and avoid their monthly fee. If someone would make a client as good as Dropbox's software that synced with Amazon S3, I would switch in a heartbeat and load it up with things that I currently keep out of my Dropbox (such as photos).

-Ricket


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Brian Cottingham < spiffytech@gmail.[redacted] > wrote:
CrashPlan is new to me- I'm going to give it a try. I've been looking for an unlimited backup offering for Linux, and $4.50/mo to back up hundreds of GBs of data is too good to pass up!

-Brian


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Jack Neely < jjneely@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:03:29AM -0500, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> Has anybody used < http://www.rsync.net/ > or something similar?
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> Daniel Underwood
> North Carolina State University
> Graduate Student - Operations Research
> email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
> phone: XXX.302.3291
> web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/
>

Last I looked, they weren't the cheapest.  I'm using some custom scripts
with Amazon S3 at the moment for my personal backups.  Although I've
considerd www.crashplan.com as they support Linux, but I've never used
them.

Jack
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Jack Neely < jjneely@ncsu.[redacted] >
Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
Office of Information Technology, NC State University
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