Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 01:28:54 -0500 From: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> To: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> Cc: User questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CA%2BQLa9AntuUHic67dHKpV-zcW7Xn-J1xR2pD3PJM6iMAt5km-Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <535E7B497FB3E9EC90C01F28@192.168.1.50> References: <20140215070812.0f1c582f@scorpio> <CA%2BQLa9DN0GKWUztaL7JT8w6RXAT9AqSB9Fr-tt%2BmjQ2P210FgA@mail.gmail.com> <535E7B497FB3E9EC90C01F28@192.168.1.50>
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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 <DStaal@usa.net> 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 <jerry@seibercom.net> 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------
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