[TriLUG] Cloud computing

[Eric Blau via TriLUG]

Personally, I prefer to use Syncthing <https://syncthing.net/>. Syncthing
is open source and peer-to-peer so your files are not sitting on some cloud
service. Syncthing does incremental syncs, uses encryption, etc. and there
are no limits on storage size since you're using your own storage.

Dropbox has been shown to read
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/2621901/data-security/dropbox-caught-with-its-finger-in-the-cloud-cookie-jar.html>
your
<http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dropbox-libreoffice-honeydocs-amazon-ec2-amazon-s3,news-17549.html>
files <https://www.neowin.net/news/dropbox-legally-owns-all-of-your-files>.
I don't trust them.

-Eric

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> 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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> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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> > products were used.]
> >
> >
> >
> >
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