<div><br>* You have to run their closed-source daemon on each of your hosts.<br>* You store files on their servers and have to trust that they'll be safe<br>there.<br></div><div><br></div>Well, actually, as compared to cloud services like Google Docs, etc, I don't think the second point is really a problem.<div>
<br></div><div>The great thing about synchronization tools like both unison and dropbox (as opposed to AFS/NFS/etc) is that all your machines have a local copy. So it's fine if the company disappears tomorrow. </div>
<div> Actually, I see the server side storage as an added bonus. Pure client-client synchronization with unison requires that one personally be responsible for unisoning their content to geographically diverse locations for safe archival. A big burden. For many years I have been continually setting up such configurations (with friends and family) and having them quickly rot.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But if you meant "safe" in the "not revealed to others" rather than "not deleted" sense, you're absolutely right. Though hopefully in the future these cloud services will encrypt everything and not know what they're storing....</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Ryan</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Andrew Schulman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrex@alumni.utexas.net">andrex@alumni.utexas.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Without trying out the software, but just looking around their web site, I<br>
notice a couple of things right away:<br><br>* You have to run their closed-source daemon on each of your hosts.<br>* You store files on their servers and have to trust that they'll be safe<br>there.<br> I'm not inclined to be paranoid, but I'm allergic to both of these<br>
requirements-- neither of which Unison suffers from.<br>
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Andrew.<br>
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