[ale] SpiderOak for syncing data between home and office

[james.d.barlow at gmail.com (Jim Barlow)]

  On 8/12/2010 4:36 PM, 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.)
>
>
I really like the SpiderOak.   It is worth the $10 / mo for 100GB 
storage.   I have several machines, including a Windows machine 
synchronizing and backing up.    Backup is also a strong suite.

Command line interface capability is present cross platform as well.

The security aspects of SpiderOak weigh in its favor.