git-annex is an appealing Open Source replacement for Dropbox. You can easily install it on unRAID by following some easy steps.
Download script
I initially found a script here to create a Slackware package out of the generic Linux package but it didn’t work out of the box.
Please find here a modified version of the script that works on unRAID. It will download the git-annex binary package and create a working Slackware package.
Download and extract attached zip file into a temp directory (on unRAID).
Make script executable
chmod +x git-annex.SlackBuild
Run the script
It will download the required packages.
./git-annex.SlackBuild
Install the package
You can manually install it before adding it to your /etc/config/go
upgradepkg --install-new git-annex-4.20130922-g7dc188a-i486-3_rdp.txz
Start the web app (if needed)
Do no start the web app like you would do on a laptop like:
git-annex webapp
Instead specify unRAID IP address as listening address:
git-annex webapp --listen=192.168.0.18
You should get a login token. Copy it and paste it on a browser.
http://192.168.0.18:57158/?auth=58246bd934f64b96efd645ce7bd12b38e53ed07e01b1a90993c8b6c41a1cd21c67efed50b0667489bc61bc657e3aed398ac0d67755d496dd8e559e8b6c004cc8
Play around with git-annex
The only thing that didn’t work was the Remote Server setup. While it worked for encrypted repo it didn’t work for unencrypted, full git repo as git-annex complains about unRAID not running git or git-annex.