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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."
I don't think the guy was actually interested in finding a solution. If he had, he'd have some kind of a proposal set up and would have had us evaluate it, or give him a better suggestion. The whole post sounds like a damn troll to be honest, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Using dropbox, or one of the tens of other services (google drive, ubuntu one, microsoft's whatevertheycallit) is pretty much a solution explicitely designed to solve this problem. I have no idea why finding a more difficult way of doing things is better. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's just stupid.
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These people are from a different generation. People my age that were into photography learned to compose our shots and consider proper exposure prior to taking the shot because each roll of film only had so many exposures. When I traveled, I MIGHT shoot 3 rolls a day.
Kids these days just spam the button on their DSLRs, relying on quantity to provide them with a good shot after the fact.
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
I haven't tried it lately as I got scared off - does dropbox actually handle a file that you're using for a truecrypt container rationally yet?
Last I tried using dropbox it claimed to be able to handle partial files just fine - but it never worked in practice. My latest fly by night tests seem to indicate that this has been resolved - but I'm still leery of it since it's spectacularly failed so many times in the past.