Re: Cooperating with oneself using the cloud?

["Monroe, Will" <wtmonroe.ls@gmail.com>]

Thanks you Rasmus and Brett!  It still sounds interesting although your 
combined feedback has left me in a state of indecision about whether to 
pursue another option or investigate git-annex further.  Ha!

On 9/26/14, 9:11 AM, Rasmus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "Tim O'Callaghan" <timo@linux.com> writes:
>
>> I have no instructions per-se. I did consider git, using git-annexe or
>> similar tool, but the pre-internet encryption i require does not
>> easily happen out of the box. If you are only syncing between your own
>> git servers though and do not care so much file level encryption
>> git-annexe a remarkable tool. I still cannot get my head around how it
>> works (symlinks galore!) but it seems ideal for personal sync (but not
>> to github). This is the nearest thing i've seen to dropbox.
>> https://git-annex.branchable.com/
>
> At this point I would not recommend git-annex to my worst enemy, even
> though I use it.  Annex is not at all transparent (to me), and I
> struggle a lot when it doesn't just worksᵀᴹ [which is somehow rarely
> the case for me].
>
> That being said, it does do client-side encryption.  It will even
> setup a key for you in the webapp.  Only requirement is that you have
> git-annex on your central server, but I think an installation by an
> unprivileged user is fine.  You have to transfer the key to your other
> systems yourself.
>
> Also, you can get rid of the symlinks with direct mode.  I sometimes
> go into indirect mode to do $GIT_STUFF manually.
>
> —Rasmus
>