How to synchronize data between computers over Internet
Recently I wrote about my new shiny desktop (we all know that after few months it will be old junk ;))... I want to use this computer for work mostly, for developement, testing etc... For that reason, I would like to synchronize some data between different computers, ideally over internet (and also share some data with my colleagues\friends - for this I am using Live SkyDrive).
Microsoft recently aquired product called FolderShare, so I decided I will give it a try. And I must say I really like it. You install (small) application that is running on your PC and it is responsible for synchronizing all data.
You can mark sync folder as private or you can share it with your friends... Nice thing is that you can also remotely browse your PCs harddrive.
Currently there are however still some problems:
- LiveID is not supported - I see this is definitely only temporary issue, but it is quite annoying (also because they have password complexity turned on, so I cant use same mail & password as is my original LiveID).
- No option to download whole folders from remote PCs (however you can download files). I understand this is not primary function of FolderShare, but I would definitely like to see it
- data limitations - of course, we always want more and more :D I know there is 10.000 files per-library limit, dont know about size limits
- automatic detection of proxy server - it is quite annoying to enable\disable proxy over and over again
- two-factor security would be nice... for sensitive data like this password is not really enough (but same applies for LiveID itself)
- public & password protected libraries would be nice. Public for projects (install FolderShare and all your projects (understand different utilities etc) are automatically up-to-date), password protected for load&wipe sharing.
Thats all... So far I highly recommend this tool - if you have few PCs and you want to synchronize some data...