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?"
(Score: 4, Informative) by Bartman12345 on Tuesday March 25 2014, @04:52AM
I am a long-time Spideroak user, and I know what you mean about the intimidating level of complexity. However, this problem has been addressed with the introduction of the "Hive" functionality (works just like your Dropbox folder). This has made Spideroak "Dropbox Simple" to use, while still retaining the old sync methods for those who want or need them.