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AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

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Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

#11

Post by rb2k_ »

I have an account and try it every once in a while. It has a nice interface and I could really see myself using it. My current problems:

- It doesn't support symbolic links but requires you to put all the directories inside the special "AeroFS" directory

- There is only an option to add a 1 GB "cloud" storage. While it is not the primary use case, I'd love to be able to buy some more

- Last time I checked there was no way to install aerofs on a headless linux system (e.g. a NAS device with a JVM)

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

#12

Post by mlapida »

smiler wrote: post #6
mlapida wrote: post #3

It sounds like a great idea, but I'm curious how it will perform along side a traditional file sharing system. I'm not sure users will find the benefit. Windows allows cacheing of shared drives already.

Windows shared drive performance is abysmal. Anything to improve that would be a boon. Plus this is cross platform. The biggest competitor is a usb stick.

It is poor, to say the least. Good point.

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

#14

Post by weihan »

rb2k_ wrote: post #11

I have an account and try it every once in a while. It has a nice interface and I could really see myself using it. My current problems: - It doesn't support symbolic links but requires you to put all the directories inside the special "AeroFS" directory - There is only an option to add a 1 GB "cloud" storage. While it is not the primary use case, I'd love to be able to buy some more - Last time I checked there was n…

Co-founder of AeroFS here :-)

1. Symbolic link support is currently planned, I'd go to http://ae.ro/qc9Ey5 and upvote it. It'll allow us to notify you when it's done.

2. Bigger plans are in the works, stay tuned!

3. Headless support has been actually available for a while for most linux distributions, check out the "aerofs-cli" and "aerofs-sh" commands.

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

#15

Post by yurisagalov »

aik wrote: post #13

I tried this once a year or so ago, but for whatever reason it wasn't able to get through my corporate firewall, while Dropbox was. I am curious if that has been resolved?

We've done a lot of fixes since then that should hopefully address this issue.

Let's try again and let me know :) Shoot me an email (yuri at aerofs.com) and we can see!

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

#16

Post by mrinterweb »

I've been using AeroFS for a while now, and it is great. AeroFS lacks the polish that Dropbox has, but for me AeroFS fills the need of folder synchronization and redundancy much better than Dropbox. Your available storage space is only limited by your disk space on the computers you sync with.

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

#17

Post by bitops »

weihan wrote: post #14
rb2k_ wrote: post #11

I have an account and try it every once in a while. It has a nice interface and I could really see myself using it. My current problems: - It doesn't support symbolic links but requires you to put all the directories inside the special "AeroFS" directory - There is only an option to add a 1 GB "cloud" storage. While it is not the primary use case, I'd love to be able to buy some more - Last time I checked there was n…

Co-founder of AeroFS here :-) 1. Symbolic link support is currently planned, I'd go to http://ae.ro/qc9Ey5 and upvote it. It'll allow us to notify you when it's done. 2. Bigger plans are in the works, stay tuned! 3. Headless support has been actually available for a while for most linux distributions, check out the "aerofs-cli" and "aerofs-sh" commands.

If you implement one feature, I will switch immediately: multiple accounts running at the same time.

I want to be able to sync my work stuff completely separate from my personal stuff. No "Shared Folders" solution or jazz like that. Dropbox seems totally unwilling to support this officially, so if you did, that'd be an awesome differentiator.

Re: AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

#19

Post by aquark »

wavephorm wrote: post #10

This sounds like a problem only techies have, and already have solutions for, like centralized file servers. I don't sync files, I keep one copy of my files, and access them over the network.

I have a large music/photo collection I sync with AeroFS.

I have multiple machines on my network with ten's of GB of spare disk space, so this provides a good backup policy without needing to consider how I should back up all that data off a central file server.

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