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Article #447Re: Dropbox question
From: Mark Anderson
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:15
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:15
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In article presence@MUNGEpanix.com says... > > Here's my setup. I have two nix boxes connected to Dropbox. Call them > > if you have two unix boxes and they're connected in anyway, why do you > need some goofy dropbox service? > > people try to get me to use that stuff with windows. fuck that. The box's OS is more or less irrelevant. I'm testing the service and how to integrate it into certain situations. I'd like some nodes to be clients only and get data pushed onto them with no way of affecting the main repository on Dropbox in any way and some nodes to be masters that have more control over the Dropbox repository. After some researching this Dropbox is a rather stupid service that only recently allowed a node to only request certain directories in a repo (which seems like pretty basic functionality). I have concluded (and I could be wrong) that all nodes can make changes to the repo so if I want nodes to be pull only, that has to be enforced at the endpoint. This can certainly be done assuming endpoints act responsibly (i.e. trusted) using proper file permissions to prevent screwups. I would have thought however, after all these years in business, the leader in cyberlockers would have implemented more sophisticated file syncing. I can't seem to find this in their paid services. Maybe their "Teams" has this capability but I jury rigged a solution around their free service regardless. None of this is rocket science. Perhaps some patent troll got a patent on the functionality of rsync so Dropbox can't do that without paying the dane geld.
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