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http://www.wuala.com/
Oh god, I love you so much right now. Does it work as well as dropbox? I'm installing it now.
I've used it on both Windows and Linux and sync works pretty much flawless.
Box offers 50GB of free cloud storage to Android users
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Re: Box offers 50GB of free cloud storage to Android users
#22Microsoft is offering 25 GB on SkyDrive - and at least for now, they're not limiting you to the online interface. I use it with Android, and so far never needed more than a gigabyte, but you can always register multiple accounts if you want...
Re: Box offers 50GB of free cloud storage to Android users
#23This deal is useless. You get 50 GB but no desktop client for syncing (that costs extra $$$), so if you want to upload your 50 GB through clunky web-based interface, be my guest.
Back when I had a look at box.net, they provided a WebDAV interface to the storage, so it should be easily to integrate with most devices and configurations.
There even is a FUSE adapter for it: http://code.google.com/p/boxfs/
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Oh god, I love you so much right now. Does it work as well as dropbox? I'm installing it now.
I've used it on both Windows and Linux and sync works pretty much flawless.
I just looked at the forums and it doesn't use inotify, it just polls every minutes :/ That's pretty sucky, I have code and repos I need to sync and they have thousands of files. Polling that every minute would be hell.
Re: Box offers 50GB of free cloud storage to Android users
#25Is there a good, encrypted cloud storage provider? I'm subscribed to SpiderOak but it's not very good. I'm not sure if that's because the problem is inherently hard, but it has a lot of trouble even syncing, it freezes a lot, etc.
The problem is hard. For linux, for example, there's just wuala and spideroak. http://skeptu.com/secure-alternatives-to-dropbox
Wuala seems much better than SpiderOak, but I have a suspicion that they encrypt each file separately. I can live with that, though, if it makes the client better, and Wuala is almost perfect, apart from the fact that it doesn't use inotify :/
I'll probably still switch to it, just not use it for everything.
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I've used it on both Windows and Linux and sync works pretty much flawless.
I just looked at the forums and it doesn't use inotify, it just polls every minutes :/ That's pretty sucky, I have code and repos I need to sync and they have thousands of files. Polling that every minute would be hell.
I've solved that problem by stashing everything older away in rar archives. Sorry you've ran into problems though.
I have 400MB/50k files in my sync folders I haven't had any problems yet. Now that you've mentioned it I noticed that that Wuala spikes to 10% CPU load every few seconds. But I don't notice any performance impact (does not impact avg. load either). This is with all files in an encrypted home folder with a Phenom 945 and a SSD.
Re: Box offers 50GB of free cloud storage to Android users
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I just looked at the forums and it doesn't use inotify, it just polls every minutes :/ That's pretty sucky, I have code and repos I need to sync and they have thousands of files. Polling that every minute would be hell.
I've solved that problem by stashing everything older away in rar archives. Sorry you've ran into problems though. I have 400MB/50k files in my sync folders I haven't had any problems yet. Now that you've mentioned it I noticed that that Wuala spikes to 10% CPU load every few seconds. But I don't notice any performance impact (does not impact avg. load either). This is with all files in an encrypted home folder with…
I'll give it another shot, I've also set old backups to happen daily rather than continuously, which helps. We shouldn't have to make these workarounds, though.
It irks me that dropbox is the only one that gets this right :-\