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Hi All,

I have been using Amahi without any major issues for over a year now. However, there are few things that I would like to achieve for my day to day use. One of them being "Folder Sync between computers in LAN". Here is my case:

1. I have multiple computers running Ubuntu at home
2. HDA running with lots of storage (6TB for now.. still one bay empty.. show off :O)
3. I am photo freek, use my camera to take RAW+JPEGs which are 20 to 30mb each
4. I move the photos that I would like to post process to a specific folder on HDA
5. I use various tools to post process the pictures on all PCs
6. At times, accessing these files over wifi is a pain in the "you know where"

So an Ideal scenario is making my folder on the server like a dropbox / git(not first choice as the versions makes it heavy) folder, which will sync on both ways from every pc when I edit a photo.

I am not looking for out of LAN sync at the moment.. internally would be good..

Tried to install Sparkleshare + git(on hda).. for some reason it did not work.. please help.. how can I create a user without password.. ?

How about something like Amahi Sync?

http://www.amahi.org/apps/amahi-sync

There is also some guidance in the wiki on adding Dropbox service to the HDA.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/DropBox

Hope this helps.

How about something like Amahi Sync?

http://www.amahi.org/apps/amahi-sync

There is also some guidance in the wiki on adding Dropbox service to the HDA.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/DropBox

Hope this helps.

Hi Bigfoot.. I would have consiered Amahi Sync/DropBox/Google Docs.. however they are not suitable for this specific reason, because the folder I am talking about is in the tune of 8GB... and as I said, each file is about 30MB, so upload times are an issue too there..

HOWEVER...

I have finally managed to successfully install GIT server and Sparkleshare client on my pc with successfull sync.. and I am gonna live with it for now until I get a full solution...

PS: I have tried sparkleshare from outside LAN, even that worked, however I wont be using it a lot, cos of huge size of my files mentioned earlier...

Thanks a lot for your help...

Rednus

Understand. Amahi Sync and Dropbox can handle 8GB easily. The upload time is pretty good in my opinion.

Understand. Amahi Sync and Dropbox can handle 8GB easily. The upload time is pretty good in my opinion.

Hi Bigfoot65, I mean the upload times of my Home Internet connection are really bad.. not at the servers.

Thanks
Shyam

Understand. Just wanted to advise on what is available. There are so many third party tools for Windows clients as well. I am using sync/backup tool called Create Synchronicity which works well for me.

http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/

I have it set to backup nightly to the HDA and an external hard drive. It is by far the best solution I have found so far for file/directory sync/backup.

I really should come here more often!

Unison works perfectly for LAN synchronisation. My set up is:
Amahi on Fedora14 <-> WD MyBook World Edition with Debian Squeeze replacing the stock OS

I had to compile Unison for Debian, but once I did that, unison keeps all of my media in sync, synchronisation happening within minutes of a change being made on either machine.