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A simple (GUI-driven) mechanism for automatic backups of shares would be useful, either onto an external drive or via FTP / SFTP etc. You could even include gmailfs for a free (if slightly hacky seeming) online storage solution. Perhaps Amahi could cut a deal with ADrive or similar for users to get discounted integrated access? (just a thought...)

Edit:

Just had a quick read about fwbackups etc... seems interesting but I think its something that would be really nice to have integrated into the rest of Amahi!

Absolutely -- agreed.

Are you able to help do this

how about tying this in with something like dropbox ?
Ive used dropbox since day one and it works with Linux too, so a dropbox app for backups would be great , as in the early days some people struggled to get it working on the linux boxes


Keep up the fantastic work guys been running 7 months without a hitch here well apart from a power cut but apart from that 24/7

spot on!

we talked to the founders of dropbox in person a bit ago.

the are insterested generally, however:

- amahi is too small
- they have other priorities (which kind of connects to the above)

however, we could implement our own dropbox app, basically

base free, premium for more space or whatnot.

Ah dropbox started off small too though but yep Id pay for a dropbox style app on Amahi, Id pay for Amahi for that matter

@cpg

The dropbox app sounds promising. I would pay monthly for off-site server backups.


@simonp

Well the good thing is, Amahi will always be open source, but certain features (in the future) might cost money.

But as a whole, you will always set that home server up for free.

You pay for hardware of course

could have sworn I replied to this earlier
yes I would happily pay money for extra features etc on top of the base server install, the support from the coders has been fantastic, so its only fair