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A comment on Ask HN: In light of the recent Dropbox events, which cloud storage service?.

Re:Ask HN: In light of the recent Dropbox events, which clou... by aosaigh on Saturday October 08, 2016 @02:57PM (#12668104)
Not a cloud solution, but I've been using Resilio Sync[0] (previously Bittorrent Sync) to sync files between machines.

It uses the Bittorrent protocol to send files between machines. Your files aren't stored in the cloud (although you could set up a remote linux server and have everything sync to it).

I paid for an individual license and after a bit of pain initially getting some large folders syncing correctly I really like it. Their interface is great and there are OSX, Linux and Windows builds. You can add new machines very easily and like I mentioned above, if you want off-site backup you can just set up another machine remotely

[0] - https://www.resilio.com/

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Re:Ask HN: In light of the recent Dropbox events, which clou... by kdaley3 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @10:53PM (#12669693)
syncthing is another way of doing this, which apparently has some benefits over Bittorrent sync (such as being free and open source, and something else I read about, not sure what). You could check it out at any rate.
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