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

[koendeproft@gmail.com]

I've done a very quick unicode filename test on Dropbox when
synchronizing from Mac to PC and back, just to know if they actually
supported unicode filenames. It passed the test without any problem.

Can't say much about the reliability. Last year I read on their forums
that synchronizing a large set of files was problematic, but I don't
know how far they've come since then.

-Koen

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Benjamin Pierce <bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
> 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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