Dropbox

Project Status

Jason will do presentation at the August 6th weekly meeting.

Questions and Concerns

• What is the maximum file size supported for transfer?
• Is there an issue when large numbers of files must be kept up with?
• Do we want a Dropbox style service or an FTP style service?
• How well does the solution handle file permissions, especially group permissions?
• Do we want to survey the users to see what features are most important to them?

Software

ZCluster Copy Nodes

Pros and Cons

• Pros
• Cons

SparkleShare

http://sparkleshare.org/

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1. Open Source
2. Availibility for Mac, Windows, and Linux
3. Version control (Git based)
4. Notifications of changes to folder contents

• Cons

1. Sharing folders not built into desktop client
2. Git isn’t built for handling large, binary files
3. Version control not built into desktop client

FileZilla

https://filezilla-project.org/

Features

• Easy to use
• Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
• Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
• IPv6 support
• Available in many languages
• Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
• Tabbed user interface
• Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
• Bookmarks
• Drag & drop support
• Configurable transfer speed limits
• Filename filters
• Directory comparison
• Network configuration wizard
• Remote file editing
• Keep-alive
• HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
• Logging to file
• Synchronized directory browsing
• Remote file search

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1. Free
2. Supports FTP, FTPS and SFTP
3. Supports resume and transfer of files > 4GB.
4. Client supports Linux, Mac OSX and Windows

• Cons

1. Server requires Windows XP, Vista or 7.

RhinoSoft Serv-U

http://www.serv-u.com/

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1. Web based admin
2. Supports FTP, SFTP and FTPS
3. Supports web and mobile transfers
4. Guaranteed fidelity to RFCs
5. Supports both IPv4 and IPv6
6. Supports large files (>2GB) on all interfaces

• Cons

1. Liscensed ($500 for 250, $3000 unlimited for 1 year)

F*EX Frams' Fast File Exchange

http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1. Item 1

• Cons

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OwnCloud

http://owncloud.org/

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1. Present in EPEL repository

• Cons

1. Item1

SeaFile

http://seafile.com/en/home/

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1. Item 1

• Cons

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dotCloud

https://www.dotcloud.com/

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1. Item 1

• Cons

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Globus Online

https://www.globusonline.org/

Pros and Cons

• Pros

1. Secure file transfer

• Cons

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Links

Random links I am using to sort through the project.

http://git-scm.com/

http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/research360/2012/05/mrd-hack-days-file-backup-sync-and-versioning-or-the-academic-dropbox/

http://orbital.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/project-plan/

https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Main_Page

https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/FAQ

http://orbital.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2012/05/04/shared-versioned-network-drives/