Dropbox on FreeBSD

[Daniel Staal]

--As of February 17, 2014 10:02:26 AM -0600, Matthew Pherigo is alleged to 
have said:

> Although tarsnap is great, I don't believe it's a file syncing
> solution - only a backup solution.
>
> --Matt

Yeah - I'm a long-time fan of tarsnap as well, but it would be a very bad 
choice for this application.  Tarsnap keeps a local cache of metadata to 
keep track of what it's backed up and what is in what blocks - and getting 
that cache out of sync with the server causes some weird issues from what I 
understand.  It's fixable, but it would be a lot of overhead if you were 
trying to use it to sync two machines.

Daniel T. Staal

>> On Feb 17, 2014, at 12:29 AM, Robert Simmons <rsimmons0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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