OMFG! I've been hoping for THIS exact technology. I wanted to set up dropbox like environments on all my machines so I can share unlimited data across my LAN this way every single machine acts as a back-up for every other machine on my entire lan set up when it comes to data I very much care for (My Documents, All my photos, etc.) Its not much, 20GB total? If that much. I can even have some machines mirror that to external drives. The idea though is to have them all usable from anywhere and backed up via LAN. Yea so this sounds great.
If we don't need a "server" or do but all machines are servers just one is considered the gatekeeper, this is perfect. Just install everywhere and go.
I use CrashPlan to achieve a similar result. I highly recommend you try it.
CrashPlan will backup to your network (free), your friends (free), your external drives (free), and optionally to their servers (paid) all in parallel. Anywhere you install their software you can share a backup volume/folder and it is automatically visible to your other crashplan installs as a backup destination. On top of that you can use your own encryption key, so the data is protected even in case of a subpoena to the backup servers.
I agree - this would be a fantastic tool. And, frankly, although it might be a Dropbox clone, I'd probably use both. It's not a threat to Dropbox; it's a complement.
In order to compete with dropbox youll have to be as easy to use. People dont use dropbox for the storage they use it because it makes collaboration easier - even collaborating with those not so computer savvy.
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OMFG! I've been hoping for THIS exact technology. I wanted to set up dropbox like environments on all my machines so I can share unlimited data across my LAN this way every single machine acts as a back-up for every other machine on my entire lan set up when it comes to data I very much care for (My Documents, All my photos, etc.) Its not much, 20GB total? If that much. I can even have some machines mirror that to external drives. The idea though is to have them all usable from anywhere and backed up via LAN. Yea so this sounds great.
If we don't need a "server" or do but all machines are servers just one is considered the gatekeeper, this is perfect. Just install everywhere and go.
I use CrashPlan to achieve a similar result. I highly recommend you try it.
CrashPlan will backup to your network (free), your friends (free), your external drives (free), and optionally to their servers (paid) all in parallel. Anywhere you install their software you can share a backup volume/folder and it is automatically visible to your other crashplan installs as a backup destination. On top of that you can use your own encryption key, so the data is protected even in case of a subpoena to the backup servers.
I agree - this would be a fantastic tool. And, frankly, although it might be a Dropbox clone, I'd probably use both. It's not a threat to Dropbox; it's a complement.
It is already there. Try Tonido distributed backup.
In order to compete with dropbox youll have to be as easy to use. People dont use dropbox for the storage they use it because it makes collaboration easier - even collaborating with those not so computer savvy.