AeroFS is the solution to so many of my problems, its really pretty great.
I've been advising my customers to look at it for quite some time now :)
The AeroFS Private Cloud
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Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#12So I'm actually setting up a private cloud for my company right now. It's a company of 1, so the requirements are quite extensive. :-P I'm building a FreeNAS server with 6x3TB hard drives in a RAID-Z2 config. My goal is to allow my Mac to use it for Time Machine backups, but to also use AeroFS as my file sync mechanism when I'm both in the office and on the road. Hopefully it works out smoothly. I'll have to figure o…
How To Backup FreeNAS to S3: http://www.inetpub.dk/index.php/widgetkit/just-going-through...
Unfortunately it leaves out encrypting the backup.
I think there is a tarsnap plugin for FreeNAS which does encrypt the data...
Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#13Has anyone compared the reliability of this to Bittorrent's solution? I tried Aero a while ago and found it to be very buggy then. Are there any major differences between the two? http://www.bittorrent.com/sync
I'd kindly ask you to give us another chance :) The product has come a long way in the past year. In particular, our Private Cloud offering is deployed at a number of large organizations, all of which are quite happy. Regarding comparison with BT Sync -- I think their product is great, but we try to go beyond simply syncing files between devices by allowing for a lot more administrative control to the IT organization…
Yuri, can you tell how you got these large companies on board? Is this something that YC helped with?
Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#14So I'm actually setting up a private cloud for my company right now. It's a company of 1, so the requirements are quite extensive. :-P I'm building a FreeNAS server with 6x3TB hard drives in a RAID-Z2 config. My goal is to allow my Mac to use it for Time Machine backups, but to also use AeroFS as my file sync mechanism when I'm both in the office and on the road. Hopefully it works out smoothly. I'll have to figure o…
>My goal is to allow my Mac to use it for Time Machine backups
Note that this is completely unreliable. Time Machine isn't built to work over the network. The network support is badly hacked together and will destroy your backups on network faults. They basically treat the network volume as a block device that gets corrupted when the connection fails. Using it over wifi makes this painfully obvious.
Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#15I'd much rather have an Ubuntu PPA to deploy this over an existing server with chef/puppet than having to deploy this over virtualization.
Just mount the VM's volume. Copy everything over. DIff it against a fresh ubuntu install, and Viola! Instant DPKG!
You're joking right? They already provide a tar.gz that you can probably hack around into installing it with puppet given enough motivation. But I'd rather have a proper package that I can upgrade automatically, etc.
Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#16So I'm actually setting up a private cloud for my company right now. It's a company of 1, so the requirements are quite extensive. :-P I'm building a FreeNAS server with 6x3TB hard drives in a RAID-Z2 config. My goal is to allow my Mac to use it for Time Machine backups, but to also use AeroFS as my file sync mechanism when I'm both in the office and on the road. Hopefully it works out smoothly. I'll have to figure o…
>My goal is to allow my Mac to use it for Time Machine backups Note that this is completely unreliable. Time Machine isn't built to work over the network. The network support is badly hacked together and will destroy your backups on network faults. They basically treat the network volume as a block device that gets corrupted when the connection fails. Using it over wifi makes this painfully obvious.
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Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#17So I'm actually setting up a private cloud for my company right now. It's a company of 1, so the requirements are quite extensive. :-P I'm building a FreeNAS server with 6x3TB hard drives in a RAID-Z2 config. My goal is to allow my Mac to use it for Time Machine backups, but to also use AeroFS as my file sync mechanism when I'm both in the office and on the road. Hopefully it works out smoothly. I'll have to figure o…
Why not just use BTSync for syncing? I use it for this purpose and it's fantastic.
For backup you can use one of many solutions to archive to S3. I wouldn't recommend Time Machine.
Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#18Has anyone compared the reliability of this to Bittorrent's solution? I tried Aero a while ago and found it to be very buggy then. Are there any major differences between the two? http://www.bittorrent.com/sync
I had the same experience. I've been using Bittorrent Sync for awhile now and absolutely love it. It's super fast and I've never had any inconsistencies in syncing. The closed-source nature of it is not ideal, but if that's a concern you're no better off with AeroFS or Dropbox.
Nor are you better off with Bittorrent Sync. It's closed-source as well. That could change of course.
Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd kindly ask you to give us another chance :) The product has come a long way in the past year. In particular, our Private Cloud offering is deployed at a number of large organizations, all of which are quite happy. Regarding comparison with BT Sync -- I think their product is great, but we try to go beyond simply syncing files between devices by allowing for a lot more administrative control to the IT organization…
Yuri, can you tell how you got these large companies on board? Is this something that YC helped with?
It depends on your definition of "helped". YC helped us in a lot of non tangible ways (the company probably wouldn't exist without their help, for example :).
But YC did not directly help us land these customers in the forms of introductions. For the most part, they've come to us through word of mouth and internal employee references.
Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#20So I'm actually setting up a private cloud for my company right now. It's a company of 1, so the requirements are quite extensive. :-P I'm building a FreeNAS server with 6x3TB hard drives in a RAID-Z2 config. My goal is to allow my Mac to use it for Time Machine backups, but to also use AeroFS as my file sync mechanism when I'm both in the office and on the road. Hopefully it works out smoothly. I'll have to figure o…
Why not just use BTSync for syncing? I use it for this purpose and it's fantastic. For backup you can use one of many solutions to archive to S3. I wouldn't recommend Time Machine.
I do like BTSync and considered it, but I'm not the biggest fan of the idea that my data is stored on everyone's computer. AeroFS allows me some semblance of control, and as I grow, it will allow me to add users easily.
I won't know until I try it though, I could just as easily change my mind and use BTSync.