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Ask Slashdot: Syncing Files With Remote Server While On the Road?
An anonymous reader writes "Here's a scenario: you are on a vacation trip for a couple of weeks — on the road. Lots of pictures — 2-300 per day. Maybe some text files with short notes etc. You have a camera with Eye-Fi, a PC, and a phone with WiFi and 3G. Files ends up on the PC (mobile storage), phone provides Internet connectivity. Now, if you wanted to upload all files pretty much as you go — given spotty access to Internet over G3 and WiFi — what would be the best way to do that automatically; set-it-and-forget-it style? I would like them to end up on my own server. rsync script? ownCloud? Some BitTorrent setup? Other? I'm thinking of interrupted file transfers due to no network, re-starts etc. And I would not want to lose any files; including scenarios where files gets deleted locally — that should not result in files getting automatically deleted on the server as well. Sure; I could perhaps use something like Dropbox but that would take the fun out of it."
Dropbox probably isn't going to work.
Just buy MORE INTERNAL STORAGE. Beef up your devices so that they can store as much stuff as you are going to generate while you are traveling.
That way you avoid all of the Cloud nonsense and it's limitations.
The simplest solution is to avoid the problem. I did the same thing with my own devices recently to avoid this very sort of problem and it worked out very well.
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Dude! I think I just heard everyone you know cry out in horror at the merest thought of being invited to your post-holiday slideshow.