Dropbox on FreeBSD

[Robert Simmons]

Yes, you would need to host it somewhere that has git installed and
ssh. That's not too tall of an order.

There is one commercial service that does support a FreeBSD native client:
http://www.tarsnap.com/

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Daniel Staal <DStaal at usa.net> wrote:
> --As of February 15, 2014 3:02:13 PM -0500, Robert Simmons is alleged to
> have said:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I use Dropbox and Windows SkyDrive, soon to be renamed OneDrive,
>>> extensively. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a version
>>> available for FreeBSD. These are listed on the site:
>>>
>>> Ubuntu (.deb)           64-bit          32-bit
>>> Fedora (.rpm)           64-bit          32-bit
>>> Debian (.deb)           64-bit          32-bit
>>> Compile from source
>>>
>>> there are a few "Dropbox" ports; however, I am looking for something that
>>> works the same way across different platforms; ie Windows and FreeBSD. Do
>>> the Dropbox ports do that? If not, has anyone tried to use one of the
>>> "Dropbox" distributions on FreeBSD?
>>
>>
>> Another option would be to add Sparkleshare to the ports collection:
>>
>> http://www.sparkleshare.net/
>>
>> https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare
>
>
> --As for the rest, it is mine.
>
> Owncloud - already in the ports collection - would be an option too.  It has
> more features than just folder sync, but you can ignore them if you want.
> ;)  (For that matter, you could run rsync to get the same effect... On ZFS
> with snapshots if you want to be able to roll back.)
>
> But either of these would require running a server someplace.  I'm not sure
> what commercial solutions there are that have a FreeBSD client.  (Hmm.  A
> private project on Github?)
>
> Daniel T. Staal
>
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