Possible to setup your own cloud like dropbox?

[IceDigger]

I have SBS 2011 Essentials and am wondering if I can setup something similar to Dropbox on it where I can host my own crap.

 

[calvinj]

http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/

 

[damacus]

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1618206/Open-Source-Alternative-To-Dropbox
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/27/0547218/DIY-Dropbox-Alternatives

Just read +4 and +5 comments.

 

[/usr/home]

SBS 2011 has a web interface where you can download files and upload them right to the server.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Sharepoint! It's already in SBS.

 

[hawk82]

I don't think Essentials includes Sharepoint Foundation (correct me if I am wrong).

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I don't think Essentials includes Sharepoint Foundation (correct me if I am wrong).

Ahh, "essentials".....true...but though it doesn't have SP, can still get to files through the newly morphed Remote Web Access.

 

[goodcooper]

I've been watching ownCloud and sparkleshare.... one of 'em will make one soon enough....

I dunno why you couldn't just have some files syncronized with ssh.... keep a xml sheet somewhere on there with the files...... clients check the xml sheet every so often.... downloads, deletes, or uploads what it needs, done

 

[scottatwittenberg]

This is the closest I got when I tried a few months ago.

http://web.synametrics.com/Syncrify.htm

I have my home computer backing up to my office computer a few times a day with this.

But I want something that is more "real time".

That's the only drawback. I guess you could set it to sync every 5 minutes.. but even that isn't good enough if you are trying to collaborate files between people.