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: 1) by digitalderbs on Tuesday March 25 2014, @08:21AM
Thanks for the note. I very much like SpiderOak's approach (even though they're closed source). However, I had to drop them because their backup archive of my data became corrupt. I was not too impressed with their customer service at the time because they didn't catch the corruption and because I asked for a refund, and they took about 3 months to credit me.