From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 17 06:28:57 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4982B50 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 06:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-x22b.google.com (mail-ee0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4013:c00::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7CDE319D0 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 06:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f43.google.com with SMTP id c41so6815797eek.16 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:28:54 -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=iWnGSOMBdRZE13QlhT7KEGz6ihq4Kp+Bq4w5QeyFen0=; b=z/myTb2cSzs/K64mGXrfOh7mRkLDhH64qAdI8vfBbpCNP8PGpvJ3tDRT+lT0s2T1ur 98DYGISCLU+zeRLB3XQyUnJZHAAl/2iRnFcBzGkJh2qjFO7L7+a5KvCZUUqxlfX/KJkM QHjR78jni5Lrt2e+FpVLGIFKj0JFPF3LWIlu+0SnQa9WCZxQNDe3FOKBQL3jKsVYefT2 WbbN16yu1AM6kifiRpoebGkkrZY146EKMKHbPHep0rqR1ZGnieTdfVVcgClyBXHbzP2X Dn9uVLLKVb+kCTcGeJH9Us1EgO2pLPsW+neRGh/H3pF5g9iTyg/zRgUpA6PiJNUhtFf1 gOXw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.15.26.8 with SMTP id m8mr25892686eeu.25.1392618534820; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:28:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.15.102.76 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:28:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <535E7B497FB3E9EC90C01F28@192.168.1.50> References: <20140215070812.0f1c582f@scorpio> <535E7B497FB3E9EC90C01F28@192.168.1.50> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 01:28:54 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD From: Robert Simmons To: Daniel Staal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: User questions 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: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 06:28:57 -0000 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 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 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > ---------------------------------------------------------------