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I've been wondering about this for that use case myself: https://ipfs.io/

Yea IPFS is awesome, i have often pondered about the idea of using it for an internal family storage.

Does it support encryption yet? Also, you'd have to auto-pin all your files, or risk losing them.

I think GlusterFS (battle-proof, but file-wise and assumes an administrator with access to everything) assumes or infinit.sh (robust ACL, but young, not open-source) better addresses those use-cases.

Encrypt the files before adding to IPFS and then decrypt after receiving them. Support for encryption will be built-in into IPFS in the future but for now, this solution works. There is a issue tracking this here: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/6

Also, when adding files yourself, those files become pinned by the default. Getting files won't pin automatically however. You have some more information about pinning here: https://github.com/ipfs/examples/tree/master/examples/pinnin...

Ah, good to know. Still, you end up having to develop your own ACL system if you have multiple users (eg. family). Especially, shared directories are tricky.

I was actually thinking of using a custom network, not truly IPFS.

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