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#171600 24-Apr-2015 15:03

Hi

I am looking at setting up some sort of storage facility for a small sport club. Of course there is not much money for it, if any at all.

I looked at Dropbox but the free edition is for 2Gb. For peace of mind, I would be looking at 5 to 10Gb, that should keep them for a few years.

I also looked at Box, but found that the PC Sync feature is only available on one device

Ideally, I would like each users to be able to sync their own PC directory onto the Cloud, but have the ability to look at the other directories over the web if necessary.
For example, on the cloud for everyone to access using a browser, the directory structure would look like: Common, Treasurer, Secretary, Captain and they can drop files quickly in any of those.
But from each PC, for example the Treasurer would only store and sync his local directory to the 'cloud' Treasurer directory and does not need to sync the other one.

if we could use only one login for all that would be the easiest, but let me know if there is a better or/and easier way to do it if using 4 to 5 login.

Thanks

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#1290873 24-Apr-2015 15:09

Onedrive: https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/
15GB storage, file sharing should tick all the boxes.

Otherwise google drive has 15GB free as well. https://www.google.com/drive/ should be similar experience.

Both have clients for almost any device available.

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#1290885 24-Apr-2015 15:23

My biggest fear with this is a user deleting files that should not be deleted.

You would need to make sure you had a Back up system running.

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#1290887 24-Apr-2015 15:27

KrazyKid: My biggest fear with this is a user deleting files that should not be deleted. You would need to make sure you had a Back up system running.

+1

Accidental deletion is a very real risk.

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#1290900 24-Apr-2015 15:44

OwnCloud (community edition) and deploy that to your own web server.

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#1290906 24-Apr-2015 15:59

Thank you all for your replies.
Owncloud is not an option. there is no webserver.

I take your points about deletions. Perhaps the Sync from PC is not a good idea after all and they would be better to drag and drop using the web interface.

There will be no backup. data are split on several PC but copied to the Cloud when they want to. The cloud will be their backup

Cheap and dirty, but better than nothing. At the moment, the info are not passed properly when a member is replaced or when his/her computer dies.

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#1290917 24-Apr-2015 16:11

Someone's laptop with access to the sync'd files could periodically copy the shared files to a separate folder on their computer... perhaps weekly, and keep several weeks worth of copies. This can be automated with batch files.

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#1290922 24-Apr-2015 16:16

Hi - I've recently instituted cloud storage for useful files to be accessed by the committee/exec of a sports club in Wellington I belong to. I decided to use a free Dropbox a/c as we don't have a requirement for large or huge numbers of files, although that could change. You could invite club members to join Dropbox with a referral to the main account and boost storage with freebie amounts from Dropbox.
I didn't really look into Onedrive or Google Drive as I knew that Dropbox has become quite widely accepted and has decent apps available for smartphones, etc.
So far it's been working well - we are all able to sign in via web interface with same password and access files as required. I'm keeping backups on my own computer, but there is a chance that someone will upload something and it could get accidentally deleted before I get a chance to grab a copy, but so far the only 'issue' is multiple copies of files rather than none. This is all fine as long as we remember to save altered files with dated file names.

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#1290963 24-Apr-2015 16:30

From the Onedrive webpage https://onedrive.live.com you can access the Recycle Bin (bottom left of screen).

Mine holds files going back to July 2014 (I think was when i began to use it) which seems to be a fairly reasonable time period?

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#1298739 6-May-2015 01:39

20100: Hi

I am looking at setting up some sort of storage facility for a small sport club. Of course there is not much money for it, if any at all.

I looked at Dropbox but the free edition is for 2Gb. For peace of mind, I would be looking at 5 to 10Gb, that should keep them for a few years.

I also looked at Box, but found that the PC Sync feature is only available on one device

Ideally, I would like each users to be able to sync their own PC directory onto the Cloud, but have the ability to look at the other directories over the web if necessary.
For example, on the cloud for everyone to access using a browser, the directory structure would look like: Common, Treasurer, Secretary, Captain and they can drop files quickly in any of those.
But from each PC, for example the Treasurer would only store and sync his local directory to the 'cloud' Treasurer directory and does not need to sync the other one.

if we could use only one login for all that would be the easiest, but let me know if there is a better or/and easier way to do it if using 4 to 5 login.

Thanks

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