After spending the whole last night playing with it, I think I have it figured out:
it runs on my Macbook and I have added a free 50GB box.com account as archive and an S3 bucket as full-backup and set the min. number of file occurrences to keep to 2 so IF I delete anything on my Macbook, this should make sure I definitely have 2 more occurrences of each file on two separate storages.
BUT here come the problems/questions
- say I add a folder called: Documents, it has now apparently successfully synced to box.com and S3. I say apparently because there is no tool in the assistant to check
- I can't seem to figure out how to delete the log of the assistant, its getting quite longish
- I can't seem to figure out how to upgrade from 5.20140420 to 5.20140421
- I move a file from a local repo to the archive folder but nothing happens except git-annex recording the move: (Recording state in git...) /Users/ovi/Sharing/git-annex/Finance/1-564 Erkl. z. Gebiets- u. Steuereigenschaft 08_04.pdf still has writers, not adding [2014-05-09 17:22:43 SAST] Committer: Committing changes to git
- the assistant doesn'T have any kind of gui for retrieving/deleting/finding stuff - I'm no stranger to the command line but I can't figure out how to add the /Applications/gitannex.app.5.20140421/Contents/MacOS to my path and if I go there and run runshell, most git-annex commands tell me: not in a git repository so all I can do right now, is look at things
- reading the description on the kickstarter page I must say I expected more. This is in no way comparable to Dropbox.
Don't get me wrong, this is the most promising project of its kind I came across if I can be pointed in the right direction 
P.S. How does it work on the "inside"? i.e. I edit a file and git-annex picks it up and "syncs" - what is synced? The whole file? A diff? How can one restore older versions or even look to see what versions are available?
I managed to add the path and now I can use git annex command line. All my other questions and remarks are still open though
From the command line, git annex whereis FILE will tell you which remotes have the file, or git annex list will list out this for a directory
They live in .git/annex/daemon.log*
It says the pdf still has writers.. Maybe the file is locked by another program? In this case the file is not going to be annexed, I believe, until the lock is revoked.
So basically, I need to check the log for a specific commit and then restore that one? No way to list i.e. all commits for a folder and restore the whole folder? Or list all commits for a fiel and then restore that one?
Still learning all of this, any hints welcome.
Any feedback on my last questions? Is there a road map somewhere? Need to figure out if this is going somewhere soon or if I should look for another solution? Any other kickstarter campaigns you're planning? Wouldn't mind chipping in if it means this goes somewhere fast(er)