Or, you know, just use Dropbox. And add encryption on top with these two commands:<p><pre><code> mkdir ~/Dropbox/_ ~/Dropsafe
encfs ~/Dropbox/_ ~/Dropsafe
</code></pre>
Yes, it's as easy as that. On OSX you'll have to 'brew install encfs' first.
Nice guide. One nitpick:<p>> Add a user for our project and give him a decent password:<p>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.
I am using Owncloud, super easy to install[1]. I have a non-us/eu vps storage solution, despite reading others having problem with it, its working great for me.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.slashgeek.net/2013/05/16/host-your-own-dropbox-like-cloud-backup-service-under-5-minutes/" rel="nofollow">http://www.slashgeek.net/2013/05/16/host-your-own-dropbox-li...</a>
I don't know why this doesn't end up in every thread, but Synology's inexpensive NAS systems have a "be your own cloud" feature built in, with corresponding iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux (I think) and android apps. All in a little box you can keep in your house.
I'd never heard of Backupsy before, looks very cool!<p>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).<p>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.
After finding Backupsy (and RamNode, which a commenter suggested), I've found the holy grail of backup solutions. I will write a simple backup script that mounts a remote directory (through SSH or whatever), mounts an EncFS directory on that and rdiff-backups files onto it.<p>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 <a href="http://bit.ly/stavroslist" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/stavroslist</a> or follow me on Twitter or something, but please post comments below so I know what functionality to include.
How does this solution measure up to hosting your own Owncloud or alike? Any upsides / downsides? I'm wondering because many non-technical people need a dead simple solution for this if you want to substitute Dropbox.
I applaud this, and other similar efforts (OwnCloud et al) but for me the win with Dropbox is not system to system syncing (for which Unison or rsync works Well Enough for me) but rather as a synchronization service for my mobile devices. This is sadly enough an area where roll-your-own is not going to be able to compete.
Are people looking at bitTorrent Sync? (<a href="http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html" rel="nofollow">http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html</a>) I'm uing it on a laptop, a server and my android devices. It works great. Seemless.
One question: how do you share files securely with others? Have you check out our company's free products, <a href="http://ncryptedcloud.com" rel="nofollow">http://ncryptedcloud.com</a>? We secure your data before it goes into Dropbox, allow securely sharing and many more features for FREE to all our consumer users! We only charge for things like auditing beyond certain amount of times, single sign-on integrations, enterprise stuff etc. All we want to do is secure this whole cloud mess.
A few notes on Backupsy from their website:<p>>Will you backup my Backup VPS?<p>> 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).
This looks cool, but of course you can also use encfs directly with Dropbox or, if you prefer a graphical interface, Boxcryptor[1] have a fork of encfs specifically for cloud storage along with some platform-specific apps.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.boxcryptor.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.boxcryptor.com</a>
I wonder if this is really usable like Dropbox. I tried owncloud which is supposed to be the more stable alternative but it kept replacing new files with old ones, sync took ages and security was weak. I really want to support this kind of projects but they hold me from being productive, which I really need right now.