Hi Alan,<br>Have you checked out 'Dropbox.com' it can keep files in sync. across different systems also useful as backup; may/may-not suit your application.<br>George M.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 February 2011 16:52, Alan Buchel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@communitytechnology.org.uk">alan@communitytechnology.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all...<br>
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I have been asked to set up a "cloud" system that will allow an organisation to store and access all their data online, accessible from a variety of OS's.<br>
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Looking at existing services such as ubuntu one and <a href="http://wuala.com" target="_blank">wuala.com</a> (1GB is free there BTW) and having tried them, they seem designed more for "replicating" your data to an online service. It's a nice interface sure, transparent to gnome or windows (drag and drop and open file directly), but it seems to keep a copy of everything on the workstation. Since the shared data is likely to exceed 1TB this is probably inappropriate since some of the clients will be really low spec machines.<br>
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The budget justifies getting a dedicated DC server, but even if I did this, it's the multi-OS client (interface to the service) that is missing. In Linux I just use sshfsmount, but also would need a non-technical way of getting doze to mount the shared space...<br>
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Have had dig with a "Cloud Server" (the so named Ubuntu distro) I just cant figure out wtf it does really...<br>
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Does anyone have any experience or recommendations?<br>
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Alan<br>
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