<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">+1 for owncloud. I put it on an Ubuntu medium instance on AWS as a Dropbox replacement for my company. Been using it for a couple of months now and all's good. Users find it easy.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Resilience: For data resilience I had hoped to put the data on S3, but that's not so easy on the free version. I haven't been able to figure it out, so using plain old EBS. Have not tried any type of high availability setup so cannot comment on that. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">As a simple standalone for our need of quick and dirty secure file transfers to clients on a system that we "own", it works. Only gripe I have is that every upgrade replaces all the config files, so be sure to back up your customizations first.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">ed</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Mike Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcm30114@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcm30114@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've been wrestling with the TRANSPORTERS from CONNECTED DATA for a while. The concept is -- a personal "Dropbox". You control the media and the physical devices, you have clients on all your devices that connect to the "service" and supposedly all stays in sync with the world. That was the idea. <div><br></div><div>The only "Creepy" part of the service is that they (Connected data) had to maintain an external management website and connection proxy to allow for the management of the devices, and to have a "dyndns" like service for connection endpoints to know how to connect to the servers correctly. You had to register as a user with their portal -- whether you owned a device, or if you wanted someone to share, so there's this concept of them keeping a LDAP on all potential users of their solution. Not too happy about having someone else having any ability to be able to connect to my content if there was a security breach (not if .. when..). <div><br></div><div>Connected Data has since refocused and gone upmarket. They are now concentrating to move to the SMB space, and are de-emphasizing the Consumer space. I expect that its a question of time before they bow out of this space completely. So, I'm looking for an alternative. </div></div><div><br></div><div>Benchmark is Dropbox. I want to be able to have a synched data folder across multiple platforms (mac, win, linux). So far, I've put a finger on OwnCloud, BitTorrent Sync. Protection, access, synch resiliency, and manage my own infrastructure is key. </div><div><br></div><div>So, I'm looking for some suggestions -- to either adopt or avoid -- for this "personally managed cloud sync service". </div><div><br></div><div>Options for data health (NAS drive units for endpoints) would be welcomed as well (using a Drobo 5N now).</div><div><br></div><div>TIA for your advice.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Mike</div></font></span></div>
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