Tim Watts wrote:

On 14/03/15 11:56, 7 wrote:

I think what you are saying is you want to be able
to do the same from Android and Chrome books?

No - I'm not.

My idea is a "disconnected aware" network protocol and client combo.

I cannot rsync all my stuff to every device because the clients don't
have 3TB of storage.

An ssh server is *adeqate* but not great. It does allow me to access any
file securely on demand.

However, I've not found any clients (yet) for Android that let me choose
to cache offline copies of selected files or directories nicely.

Also the SFTP clients don't really integrate with Android.

This sounds more and more a problem with Android apps becaus the ssh
server doesn't need to know how the data needs to be shuffled around.


This scenario:

"I'm going to see Joe and he wants to look at the pics of Prague I took
last month. And there's no Internet down the pub where will will meet
for beer."

1) Google Drive: I can mark a whole bunch of stuff for offline access -
let it sync and off I go.

2) With SFTP I'd have to manually copy that over to the phone's storage
and any updates on the server would not get replicated.


Still sounds like getting working apps built and may be a multi-user server
application that needs to manage users and remember what it must do.


So Google Drive does it right (TM) but with all the problems that it's
not secure (against the NSA/GCHQ etc) and Google could bugger me up. I
know this -

So basically, SFTP is "just about good enough" but it's no where near
"great".

That I think summarizes the problem.
The need is for someone to make the whole process easier by
adding server application and probably web applications
that allow Android and Chrome to control the transfer
instead of doing it manually.

The server itself would be ssh, and the primary method for file transfer
would be rsync. Easy enough to do, but you might have to pay someone

I did my automation tool using Gambas over a couple of days.
May be you can give it a try?
Its not that difficult.
And it does have a non-GUI mode for writing applications
that run as servers which start up when the machine boots.