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Why spideroak instead of dropbox?

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http://forums.opensuse.org – Hi: I'm using OpenSuse since version 11.1 I believe. I like it very much, now I'm about to upgrade to 11.3 and reading about the new features I saw it has spideroak support integrated. Since I didn't know of this product I checked out the website and saw no significant difference with my current cloud storage (Dropbox). As a matter of fact, Dropbox integrates perfectly with different distributions and operating systems (The only problem I found was installing for different distros, which would be solved by having it built into the system). Anyway, I'd like to ask (Distributions)

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Submitted by dayu on 07/19/2010 – Made popular on 07/19/2010

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Not sure if SpiderOak has been discussed in the past, but I just stumbled across it in the web as another free (up to 2 GB) online backup similar to dropbox. I just installed it on my netbook and does not seem to use much system resources.Anyone else using it?

So openSUSE 11.3 comes with the SpiderOak client ready to install from the repos.

If you haven't seen it, SO is an online backup and sync service, the big advantage compared to competing services like Dropbox is the zero-knowledge approach: everything is encrypted right on your machine, all they can know is how much data you are saving.

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I use SpiderOak for online backup and file synchronisation (a la Dropbox.) I'm running it on my headless server via the SpiderOak --headless command.

At the moment, I have to start this manually inside a screen session to keep it running.

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