[colug-432] dropbox clone

[Scott Merrill]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:21 PM, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:
> http://fak3r.com/geek/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/

This of course requires that you manage the storage at the remote
(server) end. Depending on how important your data is, you'll want to
find ways to ensure this data is highly available and securely backed
up, etc. In short, there's a lot more overhead to this solution that
isn't documented.

If you don't want to manage the server end, Dropbox remains a very
good product. If your data is sensitive, you should encrypt it
yourself before uploading it to Dropbox. TrueCrypt and GPG are good
solutions for this.

Other alternatives include UbuntuOne (https://one.ubuntu.com/) and
SpiderOak (https://spideroak.com/). There are lots of competing
solutions. See also PogoPlug: http://www.pogoplug.com/