[Sussex] Dropbox like system

[Dominic Humphries]

To be honest, I just use git via SSH for most of my sync needs. And
SSHFS for the rest. Everything else I try seems either less-flexible or
more convoluted. YMMV, of course :)

Dom

On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 22:38 +0000, John Crowhurst wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm thinking of setting up a Dropbox like system for my backups. I have 
> some software that can do synchronisation on Windows and Mac computers 
> but have a couple of stumbling blocks that will need to be addressed.
> 
> How do I organise the storage? Is there a file system that does account 
> based encryption/decryption on the fly? Does it have a facility to show 
> how much a user has used or is that managed through quota?
> 
> I looked at ecryptfs but that is an encryption layer that encrypts the 
> partition by encrypting file contents but that doesn't stop someone who 
> has root access from seeing their files.
> 
> I hope someone has ideas to point me in the right direction.
> 
> Best,
> 
> John
>