rdiff-backup Reviews

Snapdrop Reviews

1. Jeff

   over 1 year ago
   A Complete waste of time from a 4 decade mac pro user

   Takes forever to send even small video files with high speed internet. Horrible documentation for transferring instructions. No option in the app menu to choose a destination folder. There's no way to compress all of your videos on an android to send to the Mac, even though that is suggested in their "features". And not 1 single video could I find in 2 hours of google searches that answered these questions. For a company touting such "ease of use", as a 40 year mac user, this was another waste of time app. If the company would like to contact me and answer these questions, if it is indeed an "easy, reliable app", I will gladly help them make a video that actually walks people through the problems I have encountered.

2. Gar

   over 2 years ago
   Excellent way to share a folder with multiple files to another computer

   SnapDrop does an excellent job in sharing multiple files to another computer. Just zip/compress a folder with multiple files and select that zipped folder to send to the other computer or mobile device.

   🏁 Competitors: AirDrop by Apple

rdiff-backup mentions (15)

• How do I copy data from one HDD to another using Linux Mint?

  Rdiff-backup - close to what you do currently but at least provides versioning. Based on rsync. Source: over 1 year ago

• Accomplishing What I Want With What I Have

  As in just a copy of your files? This I would barely consider a backup, more of just a mirror from a point in time. What're you missing by doing this? Versions of files, deduplication, and encryption (last one being very important for the best kind of backups, which should be off-site). Just because it's not files doesn't mean it's proprietary. Proprietary would mean secret and undocumented. There are many great... Source: over 1 year ago

• Name a program that doesn't get enough love!

  Rdiff Backup - Reverse differential backups that uses rsync, linking, and can tunnel via ssh. You get a full current backup with increments available to restore any version of the file with minimal storage space used. Source: over 1 year ago

• BorgBackup, Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

  Borg is great. we've been using it for the past 3 years to archive hundreds of file-level backups of servers, database dumps and VM images. Average size of each borg repo is few GB but there are few outliers up to few hundreds of GB. Borg replaced https://rdiff-backup.net/ for us and gave:. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Advice for Automated Copying of my Off Grid 6TB Media Hoard :)

  Robocopy is great if you don't have access to rsync. If rsync via WSL2 for instance is an option, I'd personally go with rdiffbackup. Source: over 1 year ago

Snapdrop mentions (228)

• Ask HN: Those who use an Android and macOS, how do you manage sync?

  Https://snapdrop.net/ is a great solution that unlike KDE doesn't require installation. Along with https://webwormhole.io/ they are my go to for transferring assets between systems. Both use WebRTC. - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago

• WebRTC API

  Snapdrop.net is one of many examples of the uses for this API, using it with WebSocket API allows endpoints on the same local network to distribute files and send data between them. We can find the source code for the project here. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• How to copy a file between devices?

  Here is a list of open source options. This isn't the first time I have shared this on here either. Perhaps this is another sign that web search is failing us. SnapDrop - Site: https://snapdrop.net/ - Source: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop - Source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop - Source: https://github.com/kern/filepizza - - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop

  Similar: I have been using https://snapdrop.net/ for a few years now. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Is there a way to get to linux devices (say a desktop and a laptop) to sync and share files between them?

  Localsend for sharing files once in a while, snapdrop is an online alternative. Syncthing to sync folders between devices. Source: 7 months ago