Thanks for the comments. Ultimately what I will need this software to do is provide links from my internal users (sales, sales engineers, consultants) to files that are posted by them to customers and vendors. owncloud looks like it might be on track, I still have to do more testing though. I will also look at ifolder.<div>
<br></div><div>bittorrent and rsync won't cut it for our non tech users. Not to mention a good number of our customers probably won't take kindly to their people using torrents. But good ideas though!</div><div>
<br></div><div>The biggest hurdle I think I have is all browsers being able to upload the +2 gig files. The only upload I got to work with a +4 gig file was chrome on ubuntu.</div><div><br></div><div>Rob<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:04 PM, James Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:James.Taylor@eastcobbgroup.com" target="_blank">James.Taylor@eastcobbgroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I just spent the better part of the afternoon playing with owncloud, and I'm not real impressed.<br>
It has potential, but the admin is nearly non-existent and the sync is slow.<br>
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I would highly recommend taking a look at ifolder.<br>
The open-source iFolder site at kablink is way out of date, but the project has been picked up at <a href="http://nofolder.com" target="_blank">nofolder.com</a>.<br>
The project was designed around SUSE, but the nofolder site has installation help for other distros.<br>
The initial setup may be a bit more involved, but the product, once installed is a very mature product with good administration and sync tracking.<br>
If you can stand to use a commercial product based on linux, you can get a five user Novell Open WorkGroup Starter Pack that includes the latest supported version of ifolder for free.<br>
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</div>>>> James Sumners <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> 7/3/2012 09:21 PM >>><br>
<div><div class="h5">Except, it's easy to not recommend things that don't even compare to<br>
the product mentioned. BitTorrent is nowhere near an effective<br>
substitute for Dropbox. A basic NFS share, however, would be.<br>
BitTorrent relies on everyone always running a client. And if only one<br>
person, or a small group of people, is/are serving large files through<br>
BT then everyone's computer is going to be overworked during transfers<br>
(i.e. constant, high speed, disk thrashing).<br>
<br>
The requested solution relies on a server in the middle to manage the<br>
synchronization to all clients (participants in a share). That is, Joe<br>
creates a 3GB movie file and puts it in the group share on his local<br>
computer. The 3GB movie file uploads to the server as local system<br>
usage allows (faster or slower). Once the file is uploaded to the<br>
server, the server then pushed the file out to Bob who is a<br>
participant in the share. Joe doesn't have to create a hash file and<br>
upload it to a tracker. And Bob doesn't have to go download that hash<br>
file from the tracker before he can even start to download the file<br>
that is really being shared.<br>
<br>
As for how OwnCloud handles large files, I'm not sure. I've only used<br>
it for a few minutes during a trial at work. But if your file systems<br>
and kernels support large files, I don't see why they would be a<br>
problem for OwnCloud.<br>
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On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:54 PM, JD <<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 07/03/2012 04:38 PM, Robert Coggins wrote:<br>
>> These look nice! I will test them out. Have any of you used them with<br>
>> large files? +2gigs up to maybe 10 gigs?<br>
><br>
> For sharing large files I'd look at<br>
> * zsync<br>
> * bittorrent<br>
> * "Direct connect protocol"<br>
> or<br>
> * any binary packager that is commonly used on usenet for splitting and<br>
> recombining large files with par2 parity data<br>
><br>
> Whatever you use, make certain is has auto-restart capabilities.<br>
><br>
> On a LAN, this isn't nearly as important, but without knowing how many clients,<br>
> how many servers and the total number of big files to be transfered per second,<br>
> it is hard to recommend anything as a solution.<br>
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is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become<br>
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."<br>
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