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I would have thought the personal replacement for Dropbox is just rsync. I guess it depends if you want / need full history. But personally I never use the history features of Dropbox.



rsync isn't bidirectional (see unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/), but it can be hacked on to make it store snapshots (see http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/, but it's a full volume snapshot, not a per-file versioned history).


Unison is a good bi-directional syncing utility: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/


Unison is great, I use it as a way to keep several machines in sync for large content (several gigs) using a personal server as hub.

http://gitorious.org/mist

It's not a dropbox replacement, but it does the syncing job nice and simple with nothing else but unison, ssh and a shell script. I will eventually make a daemon using inotify so that it can sync in the background as well.


Appreciate the reminder re: unison. Just made my desktop <-> laptop syncs. a whole lot easier.


History will save your ass at some point in the future. I'd bet money on it.



Rsync doesn't work offline. Trying to send updates only would fail for differing timeclocks & deleted files.




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