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

[Benjamin Pierce]

I've been hearing some good things about DropBox too.  I'd love to  
know more about people's experiences with it, especially compared to  
Unison.

Two things Unison is pretty good at are (1) failing safely when things  
go wrong and (2) getting the details of cross-platform synchronization  
right.  I doubt if I'll personally want switch to anything that  
doesn't do at least as good a job on both counts, so comments on these  
aspects of DropBox would be particularly interesting.

    - Benjamin


On Oct 5, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Ryan Newton wrote:

> 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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