[Cialug] Dropbox style service?

Zachary Kotlarek zach at kotlarek.com
Wed Nov 30 14:17:10 CST 2011


On Nov 29, 2011, at 2:56 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:

> Have a request for a private label Dropbox , .. has anyone looked at providing such a service? The basic file sharing would be fairly simple using a variety of OS tools, but integrating into the client and handling billing could be a much bigger project.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated, or be happy to consider letting a contract to help.


Unison provides multi-master file sync across arbitrary sockets on Win/Mac/UNIX (and probably anyplace else with ocaml support). You'd have to wrap it  a bit if you want the dead-simple interface of Dropbox, but that's a much smaller job than writing your own sync client.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

	Zach

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