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SparkleShare: Open Source Dropbox clone coming soon

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Re: SparkleShare: Open Source Dropbox clone coming soon

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Post by codemechanic »

furyg3 wrote: post #25
codemechanic wrote: post #19

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Try http://www.tonido.com . It offers a remote drive feature. Will satisfy all your requirements listed here.

Hmm... interesting. Can you give user-specific logins to keep track of who's changed what?

You can create shares and assign guest accounts to them. The users will be able to load as a drive in their computers from LAN and over internet.

I would suggest you to try the workspace application that comes with Tonido. Some NGOs are using it successfully to sync tasks, calendar, notes and files. The closest application that you can compare is microsoft groove.

Re: SparkleShare: Open Source Dropbox clone coming soon

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Post by codemechanic »

furyg3 wrote: post #25
codemechanic wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try http://www.tonido.com . It offers a remote drive feature. Will satisfy all your requirements listed here.

Hmm... interesting. Can you give user-specific logins to keep track of who's changed what?

You can create shares and assign guest accounts to them. The users will be able to load as a drive in their computers from LAN and over internet.

I would suggest you to try the workspace application that comes with Tonido. Some NGOs are using it successfully to sync tasks, calendar, notes and files. The closest application that you can compare is microsoft groove.

Re: SparkleShare: Open Source Dropbox clone coming soon

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Post by evancaine »

mixmax wrote: post #2

This isn't a threat to dropbox becaue (as I read it) you have to set up your own server, or maybe hook up on a friends server. While this is certainly a great feature that a lot of people will value, the beauty of dropbox is that it just works. Without you having to install a server. I see the following obstacles with installing a server for sparkleshare: 1) You need a server. This might be obvious, but normal people…

Being open source, I suspect it's only a matter of time before someone writes a plugin/fork that works with Amazon S3. The user would then only need to sign up for an S3 account and that largely removes all four of the roadblocks you mention.

Re: SparkleShare: Open Source Dropbox clone coming soon

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Post by mistermann »

neilc wrote: post #31
brianobush wrote: post #28

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Exactly, right now dropbox is 9.95/month for 2Gig and frankly overpriced. I would love to have that right now at 1.99/month. Maybe unreasonable... but I like competition.

Well, $9.95/month for 50GB, but I agree that some competition would be welcome.

$9.95/month for 50GB seems a bit steep to me.

Uninformed question...I assume dropbox syncs machines via their server (ie: all data is synched up to their server first, then back down?) Or does it do peer to peer? (and if so, $9.95/50GB seems really expensive.) While less reliable, this would save them tons of bandwidth, and while it wouldn't work for some people, for me it would be perfect as I always have at least one machine that is on the net that would suffice for my master.

Re: SparkleShare: Open Source Dropbox clone coming soon

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Post by wcoenen »

md81544 wrote: post #4

Why C-sharp / mono ?? This could almost be done (on Linux at least) with a copy of rsync, git (for the revision control) and a shell script.

If you look at the source, you'll see it is already based on git. C# is just used to glue it all together and provide a GUI.

There isn't much source code there though. It looks more like a proof of concept. I doubt anything is "coming soon" here.

Re: SparkleShare: Open Source Dropbox clone coming soon

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Post by mgw »

mistermann wrote: post #45
neilc wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, $9.95/month for 50GB, but I agree that some competition would be welcome.

$9.95/month for 50GB seems a bit steep to me. Uninformed question...I assume dropbox syncs machines via their server (ie: all data is synched up to their server first, then back down?) Or does it do peer to peer? (and if so, $9.95/50GB seems really expensive.) While less reliable, this would save them tons of bandwidth, and while it wouldn't work for some people, for me it would be perfect as I always have at least o…

They do both.

They sync directly to other machines over LAN and also send the files to their servers. Bandwidth is saved through other means. The files are split up into chunks for which they compare hashes. If a chunk has already been uploaded to their servers by ANY Dropbox user it won't get reuploaded again. This is especially effective for media sharing, because lots of people will download the same torrents and put them in their Dropbox folders to watch somewhere else.

Re: SparkleShare: Open Source Dropbox clone coming soon

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Post by pacemkr »

GrandMasterBirt wrote: post #11

OMFG! I've been hoping for THIS exact technology. I wanted to set up dropbox like environments on all my machines so I can share unlimited data across my LAN this way every single machine acts as a back-up for every other machine on my entire lan set up when it comes to data I very much care for (My Documents, All my photos, etc.) Its not much, 20GB total? If that much. I can even have some machines mirror that to ex…

I use CrashPlan to achieve a similar result. I highly recommend you try it.

CrashPlan will backup to your network (free), your friends (free), your external drives (free), and optionally to their servers (paid) all in parallel. Anywhere you install their software you can share a backup volume/folder and it is automatically visible to your other crashplan installs as a backup destination. On top of that you can use your own encryption key, so the data is protected even in case of a subpoena to the backup servers.

Re: SparkleShare: Open Source Dropbox clone coming soon

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Post by [deleted] »

GrandMasterBirt wrote: post #11

OMFG! I've been hoping for THIS exact technology. I wanted to set up dropbox like environments on all my machines so I can share unlimited data across my LAN this way every single machine acts as a back-up for every other machine on my entire lan set up when it comes to data I very much care for (My Documents, All my photos, etc.) Its not much, 20GB total? If that much. I can even have some machines mirror that to ex…

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