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Open source alternative: Rclone -- http://rclone.org/
I switched to Rclone recently for personal backups and it's unbelievable how slick, stable, and well-behaved this program is. As far as I can tell though, it does not expose an API beyond its command line interface though.
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That is pretty old, considering what S3 has changed in the past two years. In particular, it talks about reading S3's us-standard region from the East and West coasts, and that has evolved to where us-standard (which is really us-east-1) is now the same as all other regions when it comes to consistency (presumably because all requests physically go to the East coast now, but I haven't tested that): http://docs.aws.am…
Fair point, I will update the AWS us-standard results and include Backblaze as well.
No monthly fees, support open source: http://jclouds.apache.org/ Wouldn't surprise me if that's what they're using behind the SaaS
Nope, we don't use it but it is a very cool project. We have SDKs for Android, Objective-C, Swift, Java and Node.js so far. That's why we couldn't us it anyways. We don't want to compete with open source projects like this. Our goal is to offer easy integrations for all platforms and all major use cases (not only cloud storage). Btw, to support open source, we made our solution free for non commercial projects.
Open source alternative: Rclone -- http://rclone.org/
I switched to Rclone recently for personal backups and it's unbelievable how slick, stable, and well-behaved this program is. As far as I can tell though, it does not expose an API beyond its command line interface though.
I'm using CrashPlan to backup from my laptop to another computer on the network. I see that rclone can backup to a local filesystem. Do you happen to know if I can I do with rclone what I do with CrashPlan? i.e. use rclone to backup my local filesystem to a remote server?
It looks very sleek though, I'll have to give it a try.
It's a nice feature-set, looks well-designed, and handy - but anyone using one of these APIs would find it super trivial to implement this themselves? I'm not sure I see the cost-benefit making sense here? I'm keen to be convinced, though - what's the killer use case? (I'm not aware of APIs changing or being deprecated in any big way) Edit: ah, the other APIs make way more sense to me. You can offer multiple options…
This is our brand new unified API for enterprise cloud storage providers. It's part of the CloudRail API Integration Solution which consists of multiple unified APIs for different categories like social, payment, consumer cloud storage etc. Our value props are: A single API for multiple providers & No API changes since we keep the integrations up-to-date. All that without a hosted middleware. So we never touch the da…
Providers can also add new regions at the drop of a hat.
Limiting it to pre-defined URLs is a pain, and relies on tools updating for new regions being added.
No Google Cloud Storage? It even has an S3 API you could use...