Best practice for Documents directory: looking for comments on my current setup

[W. Kaplan]

On 04/19/2009 11:59 PM, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> If you don't mind some random company holding your data, you should
> look at http://www.getdropbox.com/ -- it's dead simple, works on *nix,
> Windows, and Mac; and it automatically keeps old versions.  No help
> for merging, though.
>
> I've been using Dropbox for perhaps a year, with a relatively small
> amount of data that rarely changes; it's _very_ convenient.

Hi, thank your for your recommendation. I read about it and it does
sound convenient.

I am not interested in this particular service though, because I do mind
it being a random company. Should there be a free software solution
that I can set up myself I would be all ears.