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."

Comments

Fun?

[Anonymous Coward]

You say you don't want to take all the fun out of it, but you're trying to foist this idiocy off on a public forum? Save the fun for yourself, and make a blog post about your solution.

Re:Fun?

[Zaelath]

I'm thinking this guy is a senior manager who would normally ask his IT drones to attempt to solve this problem. Like the one I had in my youth that wanted backup of his laptop to happen automatically for the random 4 hours a day it was connected to the corporate network, without impacting the performance of the laptop by doing anything too heavy like, you know, syncing files across the network.

I'm at a loss as to why people answer these kinda questions, if it was your own family you'd tell them to stop being such a lazy ass and remember to hit dropbox or whatever whenever they have a link.