Looking for Ideas on File sharing accros the internet.


  1. eyarea51
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    Looking for Ideas on File sharing accros the internet.


    Hello everyone, I have been trying to come up with some ideas for being able to perform a backup or file synchronization across the internet.

    My Mother who has a new laptop with windows 7 is very gun shy with keeping it on and plugged in when the weather gets slightly bad. This is mainly because during a bad storm there was a lightning strike that took out many things in there house mostly her computer and printer and FIOS router.

    So I am trying to get her to use a APC UPS but to help as a disaster recovery for her I want to be able to utlize own file server, Media server that I had recently upgraded to a Dell Precision T3500. Now that I have all this power I want to be able to file sharing with my mother as well as being able to do backups or file syncing as a backup.

    I can certainly do a FTP site of sorts or use a product like Gbridge or even Microsoft Groove. I am trying to keep thing very very cheap if not Free. I am currently using a DynDNS.org to be able to do VPN for when I am not in town. I also have to keep this simple for my mother to understand and use.

    Please help with some Ideas!
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  3. osholt
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    Hi, this may be too simple for what you're looking to do but have you looked into Windows Live Mesh?(http://mesh.com/).

    It allows you automatically sync specific folders across computers via the internet as well as being a rather handy remote desktop program.

    It's very simple to use even for those of us who aren't tech savvy at all.

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