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How Do You Sync Your Home Directory?

posted by janrinok on Monday March 24 2014, @08:45PM   Printer-friendly

digitalderbs writes:

"A perennial problem facing computer users is how to keep documents, pictures, music and other personal files synchronized between computers. Robust uni-directional solutions, like rsync, and bi-directional solutions, like unison, have existed for a long time. However, these tools require some degree of manual intervention on a periodic basis. Simplified tools like Dropbox and bittorrent sync have emerged as popular, useful and automated alternatives, but these rely on closed-source software, which could be subject to backdooring. Open source solutions, like OwnCloud, are gaining traction, but are these open source platform robust and easy enough to maintain for routine and daily use? Moreover, distributed and encrypted file systems, like Ceph, are increasingly easy to use, but many of these do not work between Linux and OS X or Windows operating systems. What are your experiences and thoughts?"

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DeKO on Monday March 24 2014, @09:03PM

    by DeKO (3672) on Monday March 24 2014, @09:03PM (#20660)

    I personally use Synology's Diskstation NAS, which has the Cloud Station service. It also has Cloud Sync, which can sync with the most popular online storage services.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @10:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @10:15PM (#20692)

    I don't cloud sync, but I'll second the Synology Diskstation. Really great consumer NAS with a both user friendly and powerful user interface and a good library of addins.