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Anyone coming up with a personal equivalent to Dropbox? as in same simple interface, but storage is a multi-terabyte box at your home/office (instead of a few gigabytes "out there")?

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I haven't tried or used this, but you could try implementing your own version of sparkleshare: http://sparkleshare.org/

It's open source, and uses git to backup files. Not sure how close to your needs it is, but I'm sure there's other stuff a google search away.

https://www.cubby.com

Cubby - LogMeIn product .. 5Gb Free Cloud

+ "Unlimited peer-to-peer (P2P) syncing means no storage limits when you're syncing between your own computers. Storage limits only apply to cubbies that are synced to the cloud."

https://www.cubby.com/faq

"LogMeIn Prepares To Take On Dropbox & Box With Launch Of Cloud Storage Service Cubby"

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/logmein-prepares-to-take-on...

http://www.syncany.org/ looks promising but - like many OS projects - lost some steam after the founder took on a full-time job.

I haven't used it, but there's Pogoplug and/or its software: https://pogoplug.com/

I use Transmit and Amazon's s3. Not the best but works well for storing photos. Cost me about $1 a month.

If memory serves one of the YC companies was doing exactly this, however I forget the name.

http://owncloud.org/

My home machine has a hard drive??

http://www.aerofs.com/

This assumes their software can be installed on the storage box.

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