Envision the "perfect backup and synchronization tool".
- synchronize and/or backup selected file sets
- unlimited revisions (version history)
- support central servers and/or decentralized client exchange ("peer to peer")
- support to backup to external drives, including the full file history
- work offline and still have a version history
- local revision history is automatically distributed to all participating clients
- transparent
- automatically monitors/tracks changes and immediately sync in the background
- (alternatively, eg. for files that are constantly changing (email database), do scheduled or manual syncs)
- if network/other clients are available, sync with them (including file history)
- if connected to selected external drives, auto-sync to it
- safe encryption on all clients/servers (both storage and transfers)
- of course, only store and transmit incremental updates (deltas)
- "traveller mode":
- web interface to download individual files from any revision
- sync complete set of files from a specific date/revision without admin rights
- open source, FREE
- platform independent
- independently scalable to "unlimited" clients
To get the idea, compare with
Dropbox and Syncplicity.
Sounds too good to be true? It does exist (well, sort of) !
See my wiki for details.
