Neat App



I didn't make it, I found it today and was impressed with how I had it working in about 1 minute.

The only way that I can think of that data could be corrupted is if a transfer fails halfway through. This could happen with other file transfer tools as well, and I guess one could just retry the transfer.

I wouldn't use this to deploy apps, instead of git.
 
mattseh said:
I didn't make it, I found it today and was impressed with how I had it working in about 1 minute.

The only way that I can think of that data could be corrupted is if a transfer fails halfway through. This could happen with other file transfer tools as well, and I guess one could just retry the transfer.

I wouldn't use this to deploy apps, instead of git.
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But there's a difference between transferring files with something like FTP and just using files as if they were local but in reality it's over the network. A file transfer is a deliberate action whereas this app wants you to treat everything as local, which could be really bad if you're dealing with like home movies or something and all of a sudden your connection drops and video files get corrupted.
 
These kind of apps always seem to have bugs and/or randomly hang, I used to use FTP neighborhood which was OK but didnt support sftp iirc.

I'm anti cloud so a good sftp drive solution would be nice to use with a vps.
 
dchuk said:
But there's a difference between transferring files with something like FTP and just using files as if they were local but in reality it's over the network. A file transfer is a deliberate action whereas this app wants you to treat everything as local, which could be really bad if you're dealing with like home movies or something and all of a sudden your connection drops and video files get corrupted.
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So you're saying explicit is better than implicit?

Where have i heard that before?

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Most of these types of things use a local copy and keep it sync'd to the online version. I used to use the Office connector for Google drive. It was superb as you just work locally and it kept your docs in sync with the online version (just standard office docs in your G drive). There would be no corruption - it was either sync'd up or not connected.

That's probably how Cutts found my spam empire and destroyed me. ;)
(actually I've never trusted public cloud services for my sensitive data, I agree with Adam on this - sftp to your own private server or gtfo)
For docs like content / shitty nothing docs etc. they're fine, just not my personal or business docs.

I shall be checking this out. Good find chap.
 
I was thinking of creating a say 16GB truecrypt container, then syncing that to a few places (servers via rsync, dropbox, a flash drive etc). Are there any negatives to this approach?

My main motivation for backup is to not care much if my laptop gets stepped on.
 
Kiopa_Matt said:
Every time you modify a file within the Truecrypt volume, it's going to have to upload the entire 16GB container file to each backup server?
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This is true.

You could encrypt your entire drive with truecrypt and just sync what you need to the cloud.

It wont make the data in the cloud 100% secure like with using encryption, but for me its a trade off im willing to accept.

For me local security is more important then securing the data in the cloud, although the cloud is still relatively secure.

And if my laptop gets stolen the data is unless but I can pull from the cloud and restore to a new computer.
 
holy crap, that is nice.

the main reason i dont use cloud storage is always needing to download an app to use it or web based file manager.

if this app truly "mounts" a windows drive than I am all in.

edit: holy crap it does sftp/ftp TOO!!!

im fucking in.
 
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