[Klug-general] Online file storage (is it a hard drive, is it cloud)

[Tom Farrar]

Good Afternoon Alan,

It suggest going for a already established service like Dropbox which
supports Windows, Mac and Linux (with some 3rd party clients too, like
KDropbox).
Costing and security might need considering, but I would have thought it'd
come out cheaper than hosting your own solution and the problems that comes
with that. Other than that this might help:

http://fak3r.com/geek/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/

In a former job we hosted a 'cloud backup system' and, personally, I'd say
it's more trouble that it's worth. We used a off the shelf solution that
just required front-end servers and storage, but even so it was still a chew
on.

Cheers,

Tom

Tom Farrar

On 24 February 2011 16:52, Alan Buchel <alan at communitytechnology.org.uk>wrote:

> Hi all...
>
> 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.
>
> Looking at existing services such as ubuntu one and wuala.com (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.
>
> 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...
>
> Have had  dig with a "Cloud Server" (the so named Ubuntu distro) I just
> cant figure out wtf it does really...
>
> Does anyone have any experience or recommendations?
>
> Alan
>
>
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