[ale] SpiderOak for syncing data between home and office

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

I use Dropbox to do the same.

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 16:36 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've been testing SpiderOak (offsite storage) for syncing a personal
> directory between work and home recently.
> 
> It's free for up to 2 GB and seems to work well.
> 
> I have 3 PCs setup to sync one directory via SpiderOak.  (2 Linux, one
> XP  (the wife's))
> 
> It seems to work well and has a nice GUI interface.  One small issue
> is it only allows one SpiderOak account per home directory because all
> the account info is stored in ~/.SpiderOak.
> 
> I haven't tried, but I assume I could rename that between personal and
> business and support a personal account and business account out of
> one home directory.  I don't need that for now, so I'll let others
> worry about that.
> 
> (If you need more than 2GB, its $0.10/GB I think.  That's a pretty
> competitive cost I think, but I haven't done a recent survey of
> offsite storage costs.)
> 
> Greg
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