From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tim O'Callaghan" Subject: Fwd: Cooperating with oneself using the cloud? Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:10:06 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8738bk9j2k.fsf@grothesque.org> <87ppel6n4s.fsf@grothesque.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55669) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX7sv-00044U-Rn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 08:10:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX7sq-0000xj-Uf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 08:10:57 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-x22f.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::22f]:58144) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX7sq-0000wX-9K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 08:10:52 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f175.google.com with SMTP id u57so7011104wes.20 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 05:10:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: org-mode Christoph: I'm more pragmatic. Obfuscated code or not, it works better than any other Linux cloud storage system i've used. So far my solution has allowed me to maintain a reasonably good pan system (and OS) emacs and org configuration. Dropbox also 'versions' the encrypted files, so i can restore them if i need them, which has proven handy. The killer feature for me is that once i set it up, i do not have to fiddle with it. No git pulls, pushes, merges or whatever, dropbox does that for me. If someone has an open *reliable* equivalent solution then I might switch? Will, 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/ Worth mentioning too is flashbake. This will auto commit your changes with notes in the commit messages like what mp3 you were listening to and pages you were browsing at the time of the commit. IIRC you would have to do the pushing and pulling, but if like me, you are always too busy or forgetting to commit and push your org files before you switch systems, this might help. https://github.com/commandline/flashbake/wiki Tim. On 24 September 2014 17:42, Christoph Groth wrot= e: > Tim O'Callaghan wrote: > >> I collaborate with myself via dropbox and encfs. encfs does the >> encryption, (via an encrypted fuse filesystem) and dropbox syncs the >> encrypted files. > > > That might be a perfect solution if the dropbox client wasn=E2=80=99t the > obfuscated piece of closed code it is. > > I actually wonder why they don=E2=80=99t make the client free software. I= f > their service is well-designed, security shouldn=E2=80=99t depend on this= . Is > there so much valuable code in there? Github is tremendously successful > with a free client (and, regrettably, closed server-side software). > > Christoph