mkdir ~/Dropbox/_ ~/Dropsafe
encfs ~/Dropbox/_ ~/Dropsafe
But adding and removing files works as expected, so adding a few files to the encfs system, should translate to the same number of files added to the underlying folder.
> Add a user for our project and give him a decent password:
Better off not giving the encbox user a password at all and only allow SSH key based login. You can already login to the primary/root account and sudo/su to setup the encbox user and copy SSH keys.
[1] http://www.slashgeek.net/2013/05/16/host-your-own-dropbox-li...
What is special about their VPS offering that makes it so cheap? I mean, from what I can see for an extra $2/month they let you host websites and install anything you want (except torrents, TOR or anything illegal).
I've been wanting to have an affordable VPS solution so I could be host my own stuff, and have the freedom to experiment with various development tools, and this might be a decent deal.
However as you can see from the SLA (99.9%), you do have to pay something in the form of reduced redundancy and availability. If, for example, an HP RAID card freaks out and all the VM's get corrupted on your blade, well you are out of luck. That data is gone forever. It's a small risk, but it is a real one (in fact with the P410 they are using, that's actually happened to me before in production). There are lots of other things that can go wrong too. Virtualization is not all rainbows and unicorns.
In the end I think it's still a good deal if you need a backup target with phat storage in it. But if you are interested in just trying out stuff, I think Digital Ocean is a better call since they have a higher SLA (99.99%) and probably a better dashboard and it's around the same price. Backupsy, as the name implies, is made for backups.
This will give you encrypted, snapshotted backups using open-source systems, that are better than Duplicity because you don't have to be creating full backups every so often. If you'd be interested, you can subscribe to my mailing list at http://bit.ly/stavroslist or follow me on Twitter or something, but please post comments below so I know what functionality to include.
What I am looking for is a folder that syncs, but is secure and open source.
BitTorrent Sync is the closest to how it should work, but is not open source: http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
http://doc.owncloud.org/server/5.0/admin_manual/configuratio...
$ ssh-copy-id encbox@your.vps.com
(Disclaimer: I’m interaction designer on ownCloud.) With ownCloud Inc. we have a company, customers and full-time employees. There’s no reason for it to not be able to compete except time needed to catch up to par.
And also the code happens to be open source. In that respect it’s a challenge because we don’t have the one centralized reference server where everyone has an account. There are people running it on Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Windows Server, …, Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, …, with MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Oracle, …, not to mention the different browsers people use it with (we support down to IE8) and operating systems the clients use.
Anyway, I digress. ownCloud is also a synchronization service for desktop and mobile devices. In fact we don’t have any system-to-system syncing built-in.
The mobile clients and especially the desktop client have gained a lot in stability in the last few weeks – if you’ve tried before, I encourage you to give it another shot. We’re also in the process of reworking the design for the mobile apps. Overall simplification, better visual design. Let me know if you have any specific feedback.
Unfortunately it is not opensource, but is is still better than dropbox, because it does not store my files in cloud and it has better setting - i can choose which folders on my device i want to backup or synchronize.
>Will you backup my Backup VPS?
> Unfortunately, no. Even though we use a RAID protected setup, there is still a slight chance of data loss due to RAID controller failure. For extreme redundancy you can order 2 backup VPS in different nodes and we can mirror them for you ("Configure it for me" addon should be purchased).
The correct solution involves using FSEvents (which blows), and system poling when you get an event. Inotify is good enough to get away with no poling. The native windows change watcher isn't bad either.
Even if this weren't the case, the value that dropbox provides is far greater than this potential solution for most people- ie, there is quite a bit of room for something to go wrong running your own duct tape dropbox. Syncing 99/100 files is not OK. Syncing 100/100 files, but only after 2 weeks isn't OK either.
source: I built my own ducktape dropbox (sortof). https://github.com/Floobits/flegmatic
You can also use Dropbox and Encbox together if you're unsure: Point your Dropbox installation to ~/Encbox and have Dropbox sync your (then decrypted) files. So you can be sure to have backups, file sharing features, etc. and see if Encbox is stable enough for you.
No idea how well unison performs in constant Dropbox-like usage, but you shouldn't let the flaws of Owncloud deter you: file synchronisation isn't Owncloud's strong point.
You could have a UI (web or otherwise) on a separate client but it would have nothing to do with the server. It would just be a client that provides a UI interface to the decrypted encfs filesystem.
Edit: Looks like someone is already working on it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10909500/use-encfs-with-j...
Reference Link: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gbinw/index.htm...
The only thing your VPS provider could do is delete your files, but Unison's backup feature should protect you from losing your files (in a way).
I can still follow this guide to create my online-NAS box and use it across devices.