Derpbox

What?

Derpbox is a secure replacement for Dropbox, written in bash. Released under the beer-ware license, a pint of cider is fine too. It runs fine with GNU bash 4.2.8 and rsync 3.0.7.

Why?

I've been hearing from Dropbox for years now, it started with "hey, this thing is awesome" and promptly went "how is that called 'security?'" and now is "WTF, they are copyrighting our files". I still don't really have the need for Dropbox but I sure could use something to sync my .bashrc and .vimrc across all my work and home machines. So I wrote something awesome, secure and open. Bash for the awesomeness, rsync for the security and open because I like beer.

How?

Derpbox uses rsync to synchronize files and relies on cron to do it automatically. When two files are in conflict, the most recent one is used. If the server was updated after you made modifications to your local file, your changes will be lost.

Secure?

As secure as SSH can be.

Installation?

Three, easy steps to install derpbox :

Place all the .sh files in a directory, ~/.derp can do fine.
Edit config.sh and change what you need.
Run install.sh.

Three, easy steps to setup a derpbox repository :

Install rsync.
Create a dir you will use as $DBOX_RPATH in the client.
Get back to work.

One, easy extra step for the clients and the server :

Don't forget to have a proper SSH configuration and working SSH keys, otherwise the derpbox won't work.

Removal?

I don't know why you would do that, but just in case :

Run remove.sh
Remove manually all the files and scripts.

Who? When?

$ whoami
leo
$ date
Thu Jul 28 22:29:55 CEST 2011

Bugs? Suggestions?

I'd be more that happy to receive an e-mail about it, you can find the project and my address on Github : https://github.com/L-P/Derpbox

jeremynorris/Derpbox