Other [Cloud Sync] Google Drive and DropBox Auto Synching

[AntumDeluge]

I'm trying to find some decent software for automatically synching specified files or directories with my Google Drive and/or DropBox. I have tried net/grive, which seems to be a very nice piece of software for Google Drive. However, it wants to sync everything in my Google Drive and I haven't figured out if it can be configured to only sync specifics. DropBox has the source code available for its daemon I believe. But, I have not compiled it yet and tried it out. Will be doing that soon.

Does anyone recommend any software that I can use with FreeBSD and Linux that would do what I want?

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Sorry, this may be a duplicate. I didn't see the post here.

 

[TzunTzai]

Hi,

I'd recomend OwnCloud, BitTorrentSync, or Pulse (SyncThing). I've used all three on FreeBSD 10.x and they all work quite well.

OwnCloud is your own personal private DropBox that you can host on your FreeBSD server.

BitTorrentSync can technically sync your data between all devices without a server. Quite easy to install on FreeBSD.

Pulse(SyncThing) uses something they call "Nodes" to sync data across multiple devices. A "node" pretty much replaces BitTorrentSync's torrent tracker option. SyncThing is still in brand new beta, but it works great and it's OpenSource (Unlike BitTorrentSync).


Hope this helps.

Regards,
Alex

 

[Oko]

Hi,

I'd recomend OwnCloud, BitTorrentSync, or Pulse (SyncThing). I've used all three on FreeBSD 10.x and they all work quite well.

How is this addressing original question? He specifically wants to sync Dropbox and Google Drive. I concur OP that talking to Google Drive is easy. Google tools for all practical purposes are open sourced and there are vanilla Python bindings or even better something like net/googlecl. Dropbox is a different story and I am not aware of any opensource tool which can be used to upload files on Dropbox which is sad as it is just glorified Andrew File System with proprietary lipstick (I word for CMU). How can you synchronize something with a software which is locked (Dropbox)?

OwnCloud is your own personal private DropBox that you can host on your FreeBSD server.

BitTorrentSync can technically sync your data between all devices without a server. Quite easy to install on FreeBSD.

Pulse(SyncThing) uses something they call "Nodes" to sync data across multiple devices. A "node" pretty much replaces BitTorrentSync's torrent tracker option. SyncThing is still in brand new beta, but it works great and it's OpenSource (Unlike BitTorrentSync).

This seems like a recommendation of a Windows user Classical UNIX tool is of course net/rsync but for what he wants net/unison is much more suitable (I prefer it in most situations over net/rsync). net/csync part of OwnCloud is interesting at has some advantages over Unison as it is client only application. However switches leave much to be desired.

OwnCloud is security problems ridden software and not recommended for use. Just as a side note people who use Dropbox might as well store their data on public file servers

 

[TzunTzai]

How is this addressing original question? He specifically wants to sync Dropbox and Google Drive. I concur OP that talking to Google Drive is easy. Google tools for all practical purposes are open sourced and there are vanilla Python bindings or even better something like net/googlecl. Dropbox is a different story and I am not aware of any open source tool which can be used to upload files on Dropbox which is sad as it is just glorified Andrew File System with proprietary lipstick (I word for CMU). How can you synchronize something with a software which is locked (Dropbox)?

My reply was in response to this... "Does anyone recommend any software that I can use with FreeBSD and Linux that would do what I want?"

This seems like a recommendation of a Windows user Classical UNIX tool is of course net/rsync but for what he wants net/unison is much more suitable (I prefer it in most situations over net/rsync). net/csync part of OwnCloud is interesting at has some advantages over Unison as it is client only application. However switches leave much to be desired.

OwnCloud is security problems ridden software and not recommended for use. Just as a side note people who use Dropbox might as well store their data on public file servers

Hehe. It's a recommendation for whatever works. From what I'm reading, AntumDeluge would like something similar to GoogleDrive or DropBox. I'd imagine the next closest thing would be OwnCloud, BitTorrentSync, or SyncThing. Although, you are right about OwnCloud being full of security problems.

AntumDeluge, if you're wanting to "sync files" then yes, Oko is correct. Go with net/rsync. But if you're looking for tools similar to Google Drive or DropBox, give SyncThing or BitTorrentSync (although not open source) a try, I think you'll find it to your liking.

 

[abishai]

Syncthing is a strange piece of software. It lacks multi-user support, needs to create sync directories on each node with web interface manually. I'm not sure it's safe to expose it in Internet. Looks like it was developed to sync desktops, not servers.