dropbox saved my life
분류없음 2009/07/08 00:04 I used to be a big fan of <a href="http://www.getdropbox.com">dropbox</a>. And now I become much more than just a big fan; it just saved my life.
Basically I have a couple of computers here and there that I use everyday. I have one iMac in my computational lab, and one another iMac in my other lab office. I have a laptop that I carry everyday, and I have an iMac at home. You can easily imagine how much effort do I need to keep my files neat and accessible. I was using an rsync to do so. I had a script to do primitive syncing and duplication checking. But sometimes I just make mistake that I switched source and destination, and I had some newer files overwritten by older files, which practically drives me nuts.
And I've came across with dropbox. It is basically a web storage, however, it comes with a desktop client that monitors your filesystem and automatically sync files over the net whenever modifications are found in your file. What makes it even nicer is, it pushes the notification to all the computers that have dropbox desktop client and syncs the files. So, as soon as I change one file in my laptop, the file is get synced to all of my three iMacs plus to the web storage. It is pretty smooth.
Today, I made a mistake (yes, again); I've opened a file, which is important (yes, somehow, important files are frequently involved in mistakes), and started making changes. Over the course of editing, I realized I've deleted too many things. What can I do? If I had a time machine set up, I could go back to the older version pretty easily, but I didn't have my time machine set up in that computer. What can I do?
Like I told earlier, dropbox saved my life. It even keeps revisions!!
Dropbox is a web storage + version control. I can't imagine my life without dropbox anymore.
Basically I have a couple of computers here and there that I use everyday. I have one iMac in my computational lab, and one another iMac in my other lab office. I have a laptop that I carry everyday, and I have an iMac at home. You can easily imagine how much effort do I need to keep my files neat and accessible. I was using an rsync to do so. I had a script to do primitive syncing and duplication checking. But sometimes I just make mistake that I switched source and destination, and I had some newer files overwritten by older files, which practically drives me nuts.
And I've came across with dropbox. It is basically a web storage, however, it comes with a desktop client that monitors your filesystem and automatically sync files over the net whenever modifications are found in your file. What makes it even nicer is, it pushes the notification to all the computers that have dropbox desktop client and syncs the files. So, as soon as I change one file in my laptop, the file is get synced to all of my three iMacs plus to the web storage. It is pretty smooth.
Today, I made a mistake (yes, again); I've opened a file, which is important (yes, somehow, important files are frequently involved in mistakes), and started making changes. Over the course of editing, I realized I've deleted too many things. What can I do? If I had a time machine set up, I could go back to the older version pretty easily, but I didn't have my time machine set up in that computer. What can I do?
Like I told earlier, dropbox saved my life. It even keeps revisions!!
Dropbox is a web storage + version control. I can't imagine my life without dropbox anymore.
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