Feature Request: Support for other cloud drives than Dropbox, e.g. Clous Station, ownCloud

Justin Case

Hi there,



1Password for Mac is able to store the agilekeychain in any path, which allows it to be store on another cloud drive than Dropbox.

Personally I would like to migrate away from Dropbox for syncing the agilekeychain.

I prefer to use my own server.



Many people have own servers, e.g. Synology DSM provides with Cloud Station a very similar sevice as Dropbox, but it is controlled by yourself on your own NAS, not by some company where you dont know how trustworthy it is, what law is applies to your data and if they are competent.



While 1Password for Mac (and probably for Windows too) supports this out of the box, 1Password for iOS does not!

Hence, if you want your agilekeychain to sync across all of your devices, all 1Password clients would need to support this.



I strongly advocate the implementation of 1Password for iOS (which I use, but as well Android and WinMobile should be considered) to support:

-agilekeychain on Cloud Station (Synology) (which I use)

(QNAP NAS probably has something similar, I have not investigated)

-agilekeychain on ownCloud



Thank you for considering this proposal, please let me know if something is already in the pipline or you are putting it on your roadmap.



Best,

JC

khad

http://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/12063/alternatives-to-dropbox-cloud-syncing-icloud-google-drive-skydrive

jelwell

I'd like this as well. Khad, unfortunately everything agilebits is exploring suffers from exactly the same problem as DropBox. Trust and varying data access laws. I own both 1password for iOS and 1Password on my Mac. I too use Cloud Station (Synology), but could just as easily use webdav or anything that is an OPEN standard.
Thanks,
Joseph Elwell.

MikeT

Hi Joseph,

We tried webdav before, it doesn't work too well for 1Password. Remember that in order for any standards to work, there must be official implementation available on iOS/OS X first and hopefully with other platforms supported as well. WebDav isn't built into iOS and justin said, it means we must build it into all of our 1Password apps and that has its own cons and pros. When we tested it, it had far more cons than pros and it was also very slow to use.

Syncing is very complex and consumes a lot of resources to support. Right now, Dropbox's the best solution for us but we do plan to expand further. Each evolution of 1Password comes with more modularity to its system that may make it more flexible to support other sync solutions that work differently.

Right now, we're working heavily on a USB sync tool that'll use Apple's transfer protocols, which bypasses any cloud services and will work as a local sync solution for 1Password for now.

As more apps continues to move forward to syncing, more work is being done to make all sync solutions more flexible and in time, fit for our own needs.

Cloud Station requires that their own apps are installed before you can sync your data and they do not provide their own APIs. Because of this, Cloud Station cannot be used with 1Password for iOS.

jelwell

USB Sync sounds great! Thanks for the update. I will contact Synology and point out that they need better API support.
Joseph Elwell.

MikeT

Hi Joseph,

You're welcome. Stay tuned to our blog to get updates on the USB Sync progress.

MikeT

Hi @jelwell,

The USB Sync tool is ready as a public beta here