[Unison-hackers] How do people feel about DropBox?

[Ryan Newton]

Hi Unisoners,
Ben Pierce said that unison was intended as a stopgap while we wait for
sufficiently good distributed file systems to come around, as of September
2009 he said he was "still waiting".

I have to admit that I've been using unison for many years, and am a bit in
love with it and with the complicated configurations I've set up.  However,
I also notice that some systems (notably DropBox) have been getting quite
good recently.  And they certainly excel in the UI area and in
low-configuration requirements (unison weak points IMHO).

Anyhow, I'm thinking about how I can use dropbox for the "hottest" 2gb of my
data (that's the free account size), while using unison to back up
everything else.  Unfortunately, in general, my history with using multiple
synchronization systems in concert has been painful (e.g. when I unison SVN
working copies...).

Best,
-Ryan
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