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I do this, but 90% of the time I forget to pull on the other machine and have to deal with conflicts.
Check out Sparkleshare.
Ooh this looks good!
My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
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#112Dropbox is a no no for one simple reason - there is no end to end encryption. Unless I don't know something? I wouldn't want a disgruntled employee to fiddle with my files.
If you trust https://www.dropbox.com/en_GB/security#files , then they have encryption on transport and at rest in the DC, and implement forward secrecy and certificate pinning.
End-to-end encryption means that they don't see your encrypted files at all, even if they want to. Importantly it means it is impossible by design to make mistakes like accidentally not checking passwords on login https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-... .
Transport security and at-rest security is very important (and is the best you can do if you want Dropbox's ability to access your files, e.g., so their servers can show your files in a web interface), but it's not the same sort of thing as end-to-end encryption.
Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
#113This is _VERY_ cool but I stopped using dropbox and keep everything on my self-hosted Nextcloud.
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#114Dropbox will work if you just create a local loopback file for an ext4 filesystem and mount the Dropbox folder on it.
The above is a great answer. To expand on this (from some googling). All of this requires root. 1) Create a sparse file (actual size depends on usage) truncate -s 100G /home/zzz/Dropbox.image 2) Create a ext4 filesystem on it mkfs.ext4 -m0 /home/zzz/Dropbox.image 3) Mount it as a loopback file system sudo mount /home/zzz/Dropbox.image /home/zzz/Dropbox-fs 4) Create / Copy your dropbox folder to Dropbox-fs sudo mkdir…
I've never heard of a 'loopback filesystem' before. Can you expand a little on what this is?
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#115I setup Syncthing [1] to do the same for my vimwiki folder. It was surprisingly easy, and doesn't require any external storage services. And it can even automatically sync files without internet, over the local network. [1] https://syncthing.net/
If you don't need mobile support, you (not parent, but someone else reading this) should try Unison. I use it and can vouch for its reliability, and if your use case is simple (sync files between N computers with a central server), then it's probably the best tool for the job as it's considerably faster than syncthing.
Yay Unison! I also use it and love it. I use it to back local servers up to the central file service, another copy flings to a remote server. Very fast, very happy. I'd love for it to do the collection of iThings, but Unison grabs the iTunes files, so I use that path.
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I'm sorry if this is a stupid question: If I have my desktop and my laptop, both using syncthing, does one (my desktop) need to always be online for me to sync files from my other device (my laptop)? I'd love to use something else besides Dropbox, but it's convenient that Dropbox works as the middleman that is always operating.
It can only sync data between devices that are operating of course. But if you have three devices A,B,C then it can also sync A-B and later sync B-C, or sync A-C directly if both are running.
> It can only sync data between devices that are operating of course.
What does this mean? Does my desktop always need to be on? Or, can I change a file on my laptop, then, when I turn on my desktop, get those changes on the same file?
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The above is a great answer. To expand on this (from some googling). All of this requires root. 1) Create a sparse file (actual size depends on usage) truncate -s 100G /home/zzz/Dropbox.image 2) Create a ext4 filesystem on it mkfs.ext4 -m0 /home/zzz/Dropbox.image 3) Mount it as a loopback file system sudo mount /home/zzz/Dropbox.image /home/zzz/Dropbox-fs 4) Create / Copy your dropbox folder to Dropbox-fs sudo mkdir…
I've never heard of a 'loopback filesystem' before. Can you expand a little on what this is?
It lets you mount a file as a filesystem, instead of an actual hardware device. I think it's called "loopback" because instead of reading from /dev/whatever it loops back to /dev/original and reads the specified file.
See the man page for `mount`: https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount (search for "loop")
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It can only sync data between devices that are operating of course. But if you have three devices A,B,C then it can also sync A-B and later sync B-C, or sync A-C directly if both are running.
> It can only sync data between devices that are operating of course. What does this mean? Does my desktop always need to be on? Or, can I change a file on my laptop, then, when I turn on my desktop, get those changes on the same file?
It means you need both computers to be on at the same time to sync between them. Alternatively you can spend $5/mo for a server to handle the syncing between laptop and desktop in the way the grandparent described.
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I use full-disk encryption on my old thinkpad. As in, the whole disk is encrypted, from first sector to last. There isn't even a MBR or a partition table on it! I boot the laptop from my USB stick which contains the kernel and initrd. That's what I call full-disk encryption ;)
I would love to see a post on how to set that up!
If you've ever installed gentoo, then it shouldn't be too difficult. Follow the installation steps but instead of partitioning the harddrive and installing into one partition, make the filesystem across the whole harddrive (eg. `mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda`) and install into that. The system on the laptop (Lenovo X61) is really old (like 8 years at least), back then I needed to perform some manual steps to ensure the initrd has the necessary tools so it can mount an decrypt the root partition, this is probably not necessary anymore. Upgrading kernels has to be done carefully, because I must make sure the USB stick contains a compatible kernel. I also need to configure the UEFI boot menu so that it knows where to find the kernels. Fun stuff.
I wouldn't know where to start if you want to use ubuntu or another more user friendly distribution though.
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Sadly, the Android-App still can't save stuff on the SD card. My main show-stopper.
It's an Android permission issue. Put it into /sdcardX/Android/data/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/files/ and Syncthing can write to the folder just fine.
The devs should fix this.