From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 15 18:25:42 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3008E1BF for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:25:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yk0-x22a.google.com (mail-yk0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DFF481CFC for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:25:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yk0-f170.google.com with SMTP id 9so26933866ykp.1 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:25:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=/Kf9BJ9hknzLL9ThmRYuKEmxim0MHFyP29JkEduc0mI=; b=V7YRn4sOs74yydBbAhSTtcDY+5LXOsjswV2BINcW4RWvgjy3g987Uvb5KwZn7p1sXb mAplNbkvWz1Moq8EmVg5KhfINaYduGVQWpjOUj37dXkjt/nenY3v/mG+6hKrcqD8Ig+T UVKjkuYqYllxtpcmwHWgOqegNkra4XvrGF9nneetKkvT5WFU85kRD5PAKCo+XEkNW3oe 00WoADmd1NgiZ0j5cMrritloB/SnhlNWgsbhsbOEbhxhd1rFyNtUKem/I+hasmLWl4g2 2V9P3TqosN+5C9XzNU6dGL9NRzO978puIDyG5RRMA3Y1o1BlrlKV33b8TKu1yBUz48sU 30PQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.236.152.36 with SMTP id c24mr4381293yhk.118.1392488741120; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:25:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.170.136.20 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:25:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20791A12-EBA8-4CD7-B94E-CDC407967D06@gmail.com> References: <20140215070812.0f1c582f@scorpio> <20140215170859.GB11033@e330> <20791A12-EBA8-4CD7-B94E-CDC407967D06@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:25:41 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD From: krad To: Matthew Pherigo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:25:42 -0000 you could always nest your dropbox folders within a btsync share on a windows or a linux box which would provide best of both worlds On 15 February 2014 18:01, Matthew Pherigo wrote: > +1 for Bittorrent Sync. > > As I understand it, Dropbox relies on the inotify functionality in the > Linux kernel, and there is no equivalent function in the FreeBSD kernel > (which is why the linux compatibility layer doesn't have an inotify > function either). There are some unofficial solutions to this problem, bu= t > as far as I can see, btsync is a great solution. > > Now, it should be noted that btsync is just dumb peer-to-peer folder > syncing. Although it accomplishes a lot of what you would want from > dropbox, if you're a regular user of features like the web interface, the= n > you would probably be a lot better off setting up an instance of > Sparkleshare on your personal Web server. Sparkleshare is intended to be = an > open-source dropbox competitor, that has the features that btsync is > missing. The disadvantage, of course, is that Sparkleshare requires a Web > server, while btsync only needs to be installed on the computers you wish > to sync files on. > > --Matt > > > On Feb 15, 2014, at 11:08 AM, francesco scaglione < > francesco.scaglione@sfr.fr> wrote: > > > >> On 15 Feb 2014 =E0 07:08, Jerry 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? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> -- > >> Jerry > > > > I had the very same problem and I've found a good solution using > > BitTorrent Sync across FreeBSD, Linux and Windows. Maybe it's worth to > > give a try? > > > > Francesco > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >