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Re: [O] Cooperating with oneself using the cloud?
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Tim O'Callaghan |
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Re: [O] Cooperating with oneself using the cloud? |
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Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:07:18 +0200 |
Hi,
I collaborate with myself via dropbox and encfs. encfs does the
encryption, (via an encrypted fuse filesystem) and dropbox syncs the
encrypted files.
I use it for linux, but it should also work for mac and windows. If i
need to, i can access the files on android using the encfs plugin (who's
name i cannot remember).
I have written a script that i run in my bashrc that auto-mounts the
encrypted dropbox folder for me. It also auto-detects dropbox
conflicts and helps resolve those with encfs.
https://github.com/timoc/encfsbox
I have been using this solution for a few years without it giving too
much trouble :)
Tim.
On 22 September 2014 10:05, Christoph Groth <address@hidden> wrote:
> If at least one of your computers can be reached from all the others via
> ssh, or you can reach all the other computers from one (i.e. there’s a
> star topology), you could use unison to synchronize all kinds of files.
> This works very reliably and handles modifications in both directions.
>
> I use git for my programming projects, but I find that version control
> is not really ideal for simple file synchronization. This is why I
> think that DVCs (and specifically git) are not a good solution for sync
> (In case that someone is interested in a discussion of these things):
>
> Keeping everything in a single repo is not handy, and solutions (like
> “myrepos”) are kludges. Another serious problem with using git for
> synchronization is that it’s not able to synchronize git repositories,
> as AFAIK it’s not possible/reasonable to keep git repositories under git
> themselves. Just imagine the case where you are in the middle of some
> work with a git repo (an interactive rebase, for example), and you’d
> like to sync and continue on another machine.
>
> With unison this works like a charm, you there’s no automatic resolution
> of conflicts. This is not a problem if you run unison at the beginning
> and at the end of each session.
>
>
- [O] Cooperating with oneself using the cloud?, Martin Schöön, 2014/09/15
- Re: [O] Cooperating with oneself using the cloud?, Phil Mason, 2014/09/15
- Re: [O] Cooperating with oneself using the cloud?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2014/09/15
- Re: [O] Cooperating with oneself using the cloud?, Bruno Bigras, 2014/09/15
- Re: [O] Cooperating with oneself using the cloud?, Thierry Banel, 2014/09/15
- Re: [O] Cooperating with oneself using the cloud?, Christoph Groth, 2014/09/22