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From: "john james" <jj9801@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: Opensource slowing down? "GoogleDrive" private cloud
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 05:40:58 +1100
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"Tim Watts" <tw_usenet@dionic.net> wrote in message 
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> On 14/03/15 11:56, 7 wrote:
>
>> I think what you are saying is you want to be able
>> to do the same from Android and Chrome books?
>
> No - I'm not.
>
> My idea is a "disconnected aware" network protocol and client combo.
>
> I cannot rsync all my stuff to every device because the clients don't have 
> 3TB of storage.
>
> An ssh server is *adeqate* but not great. It does allow me to access any 
> file securely on demand.
>
> However, I've not found any clients (yet) for Android that let me choose 
> to cache offline copies of selected files or directories nicely.
>
> Also the SFTP clients don't really integrate with Android.
>
> This scenario:
>
> "I'm going to see Joe and he wants to look at the pics of Prague I took 
> last month. And there's no Internet down the pub where will will meet for 
> beer."
>
> 1) Google Drive: I can mark a whole bunch of stuff for offline access - 
> let it sync and off I go.
>
> 2) With SFTP I'd have to manually copy that over to the phone's storage 
> and any updates on the server would not get replicated.
>
>
>
>
> So Google Drive does it right (TM) but with all the problems that it's not 
> secure (against the NSA/GCHQ etc)

It's easy enough to add that by encrypting it before Google sees it.

and Google could bugger me up. I
> know this -
>
> So basically, SFTP is "just about good enough" but it's no where near 
> "great".
>