Has Anyone Used OwnCloud?

[Michael Butash]

I too am curious how ymmv with owncloud - I'd looked into it a bit ago 
when shopping cost/features of various providers, but it seemed clunky 
still.  Cost is a big issue why I don't now, especially when I probably 
have better infrastructure in my house than most cloud providers.

Plus, any public "cloud" services scare me, as really I see them as 
inevitable they'd be cracked or worse, go out megaupload-style for 
government, media cartels, and ambulance-chasing lawyers fighting over 
who's harvesting data first.  Having worked for enough service providers 
and enterprise, I've seen what incidents doen't make it public, and that 
scares me for my data even more.  Security concerns me more than 
performance, but both are important.

What I need is something to global sync work files, person files, media, 
all the good stuff that really never needs to see the light of day.  It 
sits behind my home network already replicated a number of ways, really 
just need it easily available across platforms grandma style with a high 
level of security.

I'm assuming dropbox and like have caveats too, but from what I've seen 
it's slicker than anything else, especially when it'd be nice to pull up 
a config file at home to look at on my phone/tablet while away at work 
and without firing up a laptop.  Just rather keep the data at home where 
I know it's plenty safe already.

Slight reference anecdote: a guy at a company I was working at (a cisco 
ccie mind you) was fired when one of our full router configs was found 
on pastebin and investigated back to him.  He was using some kind of 
"secure cloud sync" app on his apple product to work from that ended up 
dumping it on pastebin full public read and swears he had no idea.  Opps.

Fairly recent reminder of why I don't put my data in any cloud I didn't 
build.

-mb


On 06/20/2012 06:00 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Crawford,
>
> Thanks for your email. I have read conflicting reports in some forums
> that the file transfers (backing up user data) are slow. Is this true?
> Also, are there sync clients for different OSes that automate client
> backups?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> On Jun 20, 2012 12:24 PM, "Crawford Rainwater"
> <crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com
> <mailto:crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com>> wrote:
>
>     Mark:
>
>     Linux ETC has set ownCloud up for a client and has it as a "demo
>     site" on our web server as well.  It uses SabreDAV in the backend,
>     so a little different than the typical WebDAV for API calls.  We are
>     still debating offering this as a service as well for general public
>     use based on the storage size allocated on a monthly basis.
>
>     What else would you like to know? ;-)
>
>     --- Crawford
>
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>     ----- Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
>     <mailto:mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>> wrote: -----
>      >
>      > I was googling "how to build your own cloud storage", and ran across
>      > owncloud.org <http://owncloud.org>. A glorified webdav server.
>     Does anyone have any
>      > experience
>      > with it?
>      >
>      > Mark
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