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Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Post by martinp »

anderspitman wrote: post #133

For those interested in open source alternatives, syncthing, NextCloud (fork of ownCloud), and Seafile are some of the big names in this space, as others have mentioned. Personally I'm on syncthing. It's one of the best pieces of software I've ever used. My only complaint is it's not really instantaneous for me. In theory it works with inotify, but I've never quite been able to get it to work. I'm confident it will e…

Syncthing is a great piece of software. I configured it on three of my machines in March and I've had zero issues since. In fact, it has worked so well that I don't even think about it.

One of the machines even runs an old version found in Debian stable repos, but there has been no issues syncing with machines running newer versions.

Only downside for me is that there's no iOS client.

Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Post by redm »

Walkman wrote: post #267

This is exactly why I stopped using Dropbox and moved everything I have to my own https://nextcloud.com instance. It's very easy to install and upgrade, it is stable, have way more features than Dropbox and you have total control over your own data. Overall a superior experience. If they would do something I don't like, I would just never upgrade anymore and be done with it or just copy the files out of the /data/Nex…

"If they would do something I don't like, I would just never upgrade anymore and be done with it." -- That sounds like a good strategy but in my experience, it never works because your technology environment is not a vacuum (I assume). At some point you'll need an upgrade for security, compatibility, etc.

Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Post by the8472 »

Covzire wrote: post #27
WallWextra wrote: post #12

It's a shame that btrfs seems to be dead in the water. I guess nobody with the resources to build such a filesystem actually needs its snapshotting and integrity features at the filesystem level?

Does ZFS gaining steam on Linux in recent years have anything to do with the state of btrfs?

For desktop use btrfs is still a better choice than zfs due to its ability to restripe almost arbitrarily and do on-demand defragmentation and deduplication.

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Post by godzillabrennus »

owaislone wrote: post #223
eloff wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get a terabyte free with onedrive, because of the office subscription. I wish I had a good way to utilize it on Linux.

Out of curiosity, what happens if you office subscription ends? Obviously you won't be able to sync but does onedrive have some sort of grace period to let you download your stuff and at what point would it go and completely delete your data?

Office stops working if your subscription ends so most likely they will renew their subscription.

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Post by siegecraft »

acdha wrote: post #263
snerbles wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. There's already a peer-to-peer relay infrastructure in place for when your devices can't make direct connections to each other.

That sounds like the answer is actually yes because you have to run the various computers, provision enough storage to hold everything, secure them, and make sure you have a backup plan.

If you want absolute feature parity with dropbox, then yes I suppose you do. But you don't have to stand up a server just to sync files between your devices.

Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Post by Walkman »

redm wrote: post #272
Walkman wrote: post #267

This is exactly why I stopped using Dropbox and moved everything I have to my own https://nextcloud.com instance. It's very easy to install and upgrade, it is stable, have way more features than Dropbox and you have total control over your own data. Overall a superior experience. If they would do something I don't like, I would just never upgrade anymore and be done with it or just copy the files out of the /data/Nex…

"If they would do something I don't like, I would just never upgrade anymore and be done with it." -- That sounds like a good strategy but in my experience, it never works because your technology environment is not a vacuum (I assume). At some point you'll need an upgrade for security, compatibility, etc.

It can run in a container, a virtual machine, hosted on a cloud instance or whatever. Nowadays, you have infinite choices for isolation. One of my colleague runs it in a DigitalOcean droplet and nothing else.

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Post by godzillabrennus »

nitrogen wrote: post #240
freehunter wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Step 3: $13b company cries over $1000/yr loss of revenue.

This type of snarky dismissal gets pretty old.

Not as old as someone publishing a blog with the title "This is the year of Desktop Linux".

Seriously. No company this large can justify supporting a fringe operating system to their investors and shareholders. In a perfect world they would open source what they did to support it so others could pick up the work and integrate it into other products. Oh well.

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Post by Avamander »

Chilinot wrote: post #142
mxuribe wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you kindly provide recommendations? I'm looking for a sync service which can run on windows AND linux (which is why onedrive and google drive are out)...and i'm willing to pay a fair monthly fee.

I would recommend Syncthing. Fully open source. It is however self-hosted. But they have clients for basically everything, including mobile phones.

It doesn't support symbolic links at all, deal breaker for me. I can't afford to start duplicating content just because it can't follow a symlink.

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Post by binomialxenon »

leemailll wrote: post #101
vxNsr wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like it. iTunes, for those that haven't used a Mac, is REALLY slick. This has aged gloriously, thank you!

Back in the day, iTunes is the best music manager. Now it still is a great one.

I used iTunes from about 2007 through 2014 and it was trash throughout that period. I doubt it's gotten any better.

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Post by antoineMoPa »

Zak wrote: post #186
antoineMoPa wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you telling me that I could build a startup with 3 lines of bash? (EDIT: and a fancy easy windows version)

A great many successful tech companies can be described in terms of more consumer-friendly Unix tools. Slack has the better part of a billion dollars in funding for what's essentially resource-hungry IRC with pictures. Dropbox does little you couldn't accomplish with a server and rsync. What I'm really eager to see is git for everyone else.

What about grep/sed/find for everyone else?

Also, to get more ideas:

   echo "Make a startup with "$(ls /bin /usr/bin | sort -R | head -n 3)
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