Syncany

Syncany is a cloud storage and filesharing application with a focus on security and abstraction of storage. (by syncany)

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Syncany reviews and mentions

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  • Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2021
  • Deploy a Website on Imgur.com
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2021
    This reminds me of my (now dead) open source Dropbox alternative Syncany [1] and all the different storage plugins I made for it [2]. Long story short, a storage plugin only had to implement the API methods upload, download, list and delete, so you could literally use anything as a storage backend (FTP, SFTP, S3, WebDAV, ..).

    I made a few fun plugins that would encode data (after deduping, compressing and encrypting them) into PNG or BMP and store them on Flickr (which gave you 1TB of free storage for images) or Picasa (now Google Photos). It was actually relatively efficient and not slower than the other methods, and it looked super cool to have albums full of what looked like images of static. It was a blatant violation of their ToC, so obviously not serious.

    The code is still online, it's from 2014/2015. The Flickr plugin with the PNG encoder is here [3], and I'm not entirely sure if I ever published the Picasa one.

    [1] https://www.syncany.org/

    [2] https://github.com/syncany?q=plugin

    [3] https://github.com/syncany/syncany-plugin-flickr/tree/develo...

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syncany/syncany is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

Syncany is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.

The primary programming language of Syncany is Java.


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