[TriLUG] Cloud computing

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

Right, Dropbox is the solution.

We pay for the Pro "personal" version, and pay extra for the "unlimited
file recovery and version history".  I can't remember how much extra it was.
https://www.dropbox.com/plans?trigger=homepagefoot

It supports encryption.

Dropbox currently syncs a folder across our Debian server, my home Debian
computer, my partner's Mac Pro, my Windows 10 laptop, and our Windows 10
office PC.

It's really pretty amazing technology;  incremental (differential?) syncs
make it very fast, and if you're syncing between computers on the same LAN,
it detects that and syncs between the 2 locally instead of going to the
cloud and back.

We've been pretty happy with it.

-Wes

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Wesley S. Garrison
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Xitech Communications, Inc.
phone:  (919) 260-0803
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On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Grawburg via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Box.com works fine for storing and viewing my LibreOffice documents. But
> the option to actually edit them requires Winblows. I can edit the document
> on my PC, upload it to Box, download it to my laptop when I'm at home and
> do some more work....then reverse the process; but I'd like to have a
> single file and never worry that I'm editing an old version.  I can, of
> course, do everything from a flash drive, but I'd rather not.
>
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> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Cloud computing
>
> Brian,
>
> I fall back on Dropbox. It presents a folder view to select from / save
> to. It is also cross platform so you can access files from non-Linux OSes -
> even Android.
>
> Contents are not encrypted so you would have to deal with that as
> necessary, by saving as a password protected file,
>
> https://www.liberiangeek.net/2013/07/password-protect-your-
> documents-when-using-libreoffice
>
> FWIW, one can keep passwords in an encrypted file using Keepass to make
> them available across machines.
>
> If a file is changed on one machine, be sure to wait for it to be synced
> to the cloud and synced to another PC when starting it.
>
> Much more to my looking that Google Uber Alles / docs.
> --
> Roger Broseus
>
> (Please excuse tiepos induzed by the droided predictive text tool.)
>
> On November 7, 2016 2:21:08 PM GMT+01:00, Grawburg via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> I use Box.com to save important documents and to work between office and
> home (strictly personal stuff). Even though Box let's me see a preview of
> my LibreOffice document I can't edit it in-situ.  Do any of the other
> cloud-based applications allow editing a file using Linux OS?
>
> Brian Grawburg
>
>
>
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