We used to call that a fileserver.
The AeroFS Private Cloud
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Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#62I'm new to AeroFS. How does it measure up against eg. Owncloud? Any important pro's and cons?
I was just going to say, in my opinion this gives you less control over the whole environment and you have to trust AeroFS to fix any bugs and add features when/if they are needed.
I guess on the plus-side, you get phone support, if that is what you need.
Owncloud is open-source and really quite powerful, I am surprised it was not mentioned more in these comments.
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Check out the recovery probabilities of raidz2 vs raid10. You're winning ~17% more space at the cost of a substantial performance hit, and almost no difference in reliability, depending on how you estimate HDD failure rates. Raidz2 is not fast when everything is working well, and if any of your drives develop a speed problem, the whole array will be reduced to that speed. I have a 11x4T raidz2, and will be migrating…
Could you elaborate a bit on your CrashPlan setup? I have a somewhat similar setup and have been trying to back up my NAS (Synology DS1812+) to CrashPlan for about half a year now. I was able to start the backup, but the transfer rate quickly dropped to about 1.2 Mbps or lower, and having backed up about 1.5 TB the CrashPlan client now won't even run a backup. Are you using Crashplan+ or any of the Pro/Enterprise pla…
I'm using CrashPlan+ Family Unlimited (it's a home NAS!); I also bought a separate CrashPlan+ license when I first signed up. I don't have more than 1TB backed up specifically to CrashPlan as yet though. A big chunk of that NAS is for future growth, and a lot of it is a playground for experimenting with serving up media that we either have physical copies of or is of low replacement value.
I do see CrashPlan updating at a leisurely rate, but that's OK with me, as my upload bandwidth is limited. I'd be interested to see if it completely chokes past a certain point, like you say it does for you. But it's not yet at the point where I need to worry about it.
Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#64This is what I'm working on http://cloud306.com
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I've been struggling to find a good Dropbox alternative for on premise. Aerofs is missing the option to share a folder/file through a link to non-aerofs-users which is vital to our workflow. This filecloud is interesting, thanks. Any other product that you are aware of? I thought I had found them all, but you never know :)
Filosync (my product) has share via link to non-users (users who don't have the client app installed). http://www.filosync.com (I'm the guy who wrote Arq, the Mac backup app, too).
Thanks, very interesting and looks promising. We're a mixed Linux and Mac shop, so we would need a Linux client as well.
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Filosync (my product) has share via link to non-users (users who don't have the client app installed). http://www.filosync.com (I'm the guy who wrote Arq, the Mac backup app, too).
Thanks, very interesting and looks promising. We're a mixed Linux and Mac shop, so we would need a Linux client as well.
OK. Those are on our to-do list.
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Why not use Unison? It only does pairwise synchronization, but is Free software and extremely mature. (sigh, it seems the tech community has become blind to anything that isn't heavily blogvertised.)
Unison is no longer under active development, right? Would love to use it but going forward, is there a big enough community to fix bugs, add new features etc? http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/status.html
It has not been a problem in my experience. There isn't major development (proper support for inotify and flexible topology would be nice), but Unison does what it says extremely solidly. There's certainly an active user community and the occasional bugfix/feature. Reread that notice again concentrating on the good parts, and take a look at the changelog. There's certainly activity, it's just not time intensive - this is both the blessing and apparent curse of using a high level language.
Re: The AeroFS Private Cloud
#69Overall I think their approach for easy installation and configuration is a good one. I struggle with these same issues at my job--we sell products with a complex application stack to customers that often have no system administrators. The only issue I see here is with the upgrade path. Particularly for a product that is meant for file storage, I can't imagine downloading a 1TB backup file and uploading it again ever…
The Appliance actually does not store any file data on it, so your appliance upgrades likely won't include 1TB backup files :) The (optional) AeroFS Team Server is what would store file data in the company if you wanted to, but many of our customers actually just end up using the direct peer-to-peer syncing without a team server.
Thank you for clarifying. Does the AeroFS Team Server also have upgrades that behave the same way?