I’m not sure if anyone has thought up this product or process yet, so I thought I would throw it out there. I’m looking to find a way for a synchronization tool to let me do the following:
1) Host a set of files somewhere in the cloud that’s at least semi-secure (Amazon S3 comes to mind)
2) Have a client which sits on the PC’s receiving files that will periodically check this file store and make sure their local copy of the files is perfectly synchronized to it. Bonus points if it does this at a block level or any other methods to reduce data transfer. Double bonus points if it will do this all-the-time, in the style of a “Dropbox” type solution.
Dropbox was the inspiration for thinking something like this could exist. For those who do not know, Dropbox is a tool for synchronizing files across multiple computers as well as into the cloud, but it’s based about the needs of a single user across more than one computer, not as much one-to-many. Surely though someone has had to have this thought and used it in a different environment like this.
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Know of such a tool? Send it over in the comments.
