Hey Guys,
I was looking for use-cases and sharing models that AcmeAttic
should provide. I came across interesting differences between the two
famous online backup providers.
I don't know if you guys have used DropBox, but paranoid I was I had
never tried DropBox myself though I knew what it did.
Let me summarize my findings.
*DropBox:*
* Creates a 'DropBox' folder somewhere on your computer.
* Any file that you need to be backed up/synced needs to be put
inside your dropbox folder.
* Or, you can choose one folder to be your Dropbox folder
* All your clients would sync this dropbox folder between them
*SpiderOak:*
* It recognizes all your clients individually by names (that you
assign)
* You can share *any* folder anywhere on your machine. These
folders can be disjoint. All sub-folders are implicitly shared.
* SpiderOak maintains all revisions for all the shared
files/folders on this machine.
* Every client has its *own* shared folders. These are *not*
synced among themselves by default (makes sense as they are
different machines).
* You can always download any data from any of your clients.
* *Sync* is a separate feature in SpiderOak. You create a sync
folder by selecting two folders from two different machines (or
a machine and a external HDD)
* All files in this sync folder is synced between all machines. In
essence, this is an instance of a DropBox folder.
* You can create as many sync folders as you want.
I have not explored the sharing feature as yet, but SpiderOak offers
something called a ShareRoom which you can create and (possibly) pick
files/folders to share.
Bottom line: I think we should build our application based out of
SpiderOak which is much more superior in terms of features. I like
their share and sync model which cleanly separates the use-cases.
Personally, I would find use for /both/ those features.
Did you guys know about these as yet? I am quite interested in framing
up our application scenario first. Atleast a vague idea of the features.
