Can someone send me an invite please? I'd like to try this...
casey.marshall@gmail.com
AeroFS - File Sync Without Servers
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Re: AeroFS - File Sync Without Servers
#52I see they have a Linux version. Is it Open Source?
The biggest problem I have with centralized servers in the first place is that I don't trust my data with them. If it was decentralized and open source, that's an app I could see myself using.
Closed source = no good for privacy.
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#53One day, I will love AeroFS. But that day is not yet today: AeroFS does not preserve file modification times across clients, which kills it for me. On the bright side, I finally got around to setting up Unison + cron to keep files in sync between my MacBook Air and my MacBook Pro, and it's working quite well. I'd highly recommend it to anyone facing a similar challenge.
Is there any way to speed Unison up on large datasets? It runs unusably slow even to scan changes of something like my mp3 directory.
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#54One day, I will love AeroFS. But that day is not yet today: AeroFS does not preserve file modification times across clients, which kills it for me. On the bright side, I finally got around to setting up Unison + cron to keep files in sync between my MacBook Air and my MacBook Pro, and it's working quite well. I'd highly recommend it to anyone facing a similar challenge.
I had read awhile back that Unison does not preserve HFS+'s extended attributes. Has that changed in a recent version?
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#55This looks very interesting, but the it's a bit difficult to figure out what it actually is from the website. My impression is that it's like a more featureful take on Unison ("two-way rsync" iirc) with a central server to facilitate NAT traversal. I suppose they probably haven't figured out their eventual pricing model, but I'd certainly pay a few bucks a month just for coordinating NAT traversal, papering over dyna…
it looks like they ultimately will charge for cloud backup (just like dropbox). As you note, the incremental cost of user is zero, so they don't incur a cost by distributing lots of client applications (unlike dropbox, who incurs costs for free customers that use the <2GB plan). it will be interesting to see if dropbox responds. I like the model aerofs proposes. I'm a dropbox user but I use it entirely for the file s…
Indeed. Dropbox has validated the market and there probably is room for competitors because there are a lot of use-cases and power-user specific features that Dropbox doesn't cover and might not even want to.
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#56I am using it as well ... really fast & light weight :) - If you are in work environment, updates happen almost real time across your team. Only if they had option to have different path for each libraries.
I would like to try it out, but it looks like somebody has to invite me. Could you maybe do that? Thanks in advance! (daniel.kempkens[ät]gmail.com)
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#57This sounds very similar to Microsoft's LiveMesh. Besides that fact that it's not Microsoft, what are the big differences in functionality or usability (or is it totally different)?
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#58Can someone send me an invite please? I'd like to try this... casey.marshall@gmail.com
i'd like to try it as well if any of your could spare an invite please?
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#59I was using this for awhile but the sync algorithm is retarded. It spent all of its time syncing gigs of meta data and saturating my upload rate. Also be prepared to make room for the 100mb+ process as it does not seem to care about memory efficiency. I guess I'm still stuck with rsync and cronjobs until they work out the issues.
Been using it for several months now, but would have to agree with this.
It often seems to churn away endlessly shoving meta data back and forth, and has periodically gotten confused about what files have been deleted or moved. Also had an issue where it kept duplicating some files. Toss a directory with a few thousand small files in it and it takes forever to sync. Not particularly light either.
They have a way to go to make it clean and elegant, but being able to seamlessly sync between Mac and Windows machines anywhere, without having to store in their cloud is nice.
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#60I can't figure out if at allows seeding backups.
E.g. - backing up your first massive backup locally using an external drive, then moving it physically offsite and beginning the sync online.
That seems like a fantastic feature to me. That way, instead of having - say - a photo library on each of my laptops - I can have a single photo library at a remote location on an external hard drive that's constantly synched with new photos, without the need to upload hundreds of GB in an initial seed.
Plus - of course - being able to access any of my photos from anywhere.
Crashplan offers something similar - but it's purely a backup solution - and doesn't make your files "cloud-like" accessible.