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https://www.tarsnap.com/ usually comes up when talking about Dropbox alternatives, I have not used Tarsnap myself but I've seen many who have been pleased with it.

I am not sure if there are any big Dropbox competitors operating from outside the US (if NSA is your concern). There should be but I am not aware of any.

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I use tarsnap and like it but it really isn't a dropbox alternative.

If you want client side encryption with close to dropbox functionality use spideroak, if you want snapshot/dedupped/backup + encryption use tarsnap.

Hmm, yes you are right.

Spideroak's functionality seems closer to Dropbox. Spideroak does seem more practical to use.

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