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John Himmelman
Asked: 2011-05-05 13:06:18 +0800 CST

Dropbox / Sharing Services - How do I run a Dropbox-like service interally?

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I need to setup a company dropbox-like service. We can't use dropbox because we need to share large files (10+gb) which causes a few problems...

1) Bandwidth costs would skyrock
2) Performance would suck, compared to running it internally
3) Each user would need a premium DP account
4) Rather run service interally

What are some popular dropbox-like / collaborative file-sharing software?

file-sharing dropbox

1 Answers

  1. I would highly suggest placing FreeNAS on a machine with several TB of disk space. The network I managed has two large FreeNAS machines; one is the active server that everybody uses, the other is a backup mirror that is synced daily using the built in rsync features.

    FreeNAS will allow you to mount/access the devices several ways: Samba, NFS, SSH, FTP. It will also allow you do granular user privileges.

    FreeNAS is also easy to setup and everything can be configured through it's web interface.

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