Comment A New Dropbox Clone (called Asink) (Score 1) 482
I've been working on my own Dropbox clone. It seeks to address some of the problems I've found in the other open source Dropbox clones which cause me not to use them:
- No using git. Git is fantastic for text files, but not for binary files. I want to be able to drop lots of pictures. (rules out Sparkleshare)
- Must sync files between multiple computers nearly immediately, without running synchronization manually, or setting up a rsync cron job. (I.e., if I update a config file on one computer, I want to be able to go into the other room, and have it Just Work. This seems to rule out Syncany - but someone correct me if I'm wrong. Also, ownCloud doesn't have client other than the web client, so they can't do the nice sync like Dropbox's).
- Support multiple storage mechanisms in a "plug-able" way. This also means encryption will be extremely easy to add. (ownCloud doesn't seem to support any storage other than locally on the main server)
- No bloat! All I want is to synchronize my files, nothing more (ownCloud).
For now, I've been calling it "Asink" (for both "asynchronous" and "a sink" for your data). I'm doing development at https://github.com/aclindsa/asink. I am close to having it working with storing files to my personal server over SSH, but it will be a few more weeks before I think its ready for a first public release, as I only made the first commit a little over a week ago.
- No using git. Git is fantastic for text files, but not for binary files. I want to be able to drop lots of pictures. (rules out Sparkleshare)
- Must sync files between multiple computers nearly immediately, without running synchronization manually, or setting up a rsync cron job. (I.e., if I update a config file on one computer, I want to be able to go into the other room, and have it Just Work. This seems to rule out Syncany - but someone correct me if I'm wrong. Also, ownCloud doesn't have client other than the web client, so they can't do the nice sync like Dropbox's).
- Support multiple storage mechanisms in a "plug-able" way. This also means encryption will be extremely easy to add. (ownCloud doesn't seem to support any storage other than locally on the main server)
- No bloat! All I want is to synchronize my files, nothing more (ownCloud).
For now, I've been calling it "Asink" (for both "asynchronous" and "a sink" for your data). I'm doing development at https://github.com/aclindsa/asink. I am close to having it working with storing files to my personal server over SSH, but it will be a few more weeks before I think its ready for a first public release, as I only made the first commit a little over a week ago.
