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Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

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Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

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Post by stevenringo »

liuliu wrote: post #9
hannasanarion wrote: post #4

After Dropbox stopped supporting filesystems besides non-encrypted Ext4 I've dropped it entirely. I now use SpiderOak One, which doubles as E2E encrypted cloud backup in addition to folder sync.

I switched to Syncthing with the main desktop backed up to S3 with zbackup (encrypted). Syncthing works really well (and faster!) when keeping laptops and desktops in sync for my case.

How do you use Syncthing with S3?

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

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Post by drakenot »

liuliu wrote: post #9
hannasanarion wrote: post #4

After Dropbox stopped supporting filesystems besides non-encrypted Ext4 I've dropped it entirely. I now use SpiderOak One, which doubles as E2E encrypted cloud backup in addition to folder sync.

I switched to Syncthing with the main desktop backed up to S3 with zbackup (encrypted). Syncthing works really well (and faster!) when keeping laptops and desktops in sync for my case.

The one killer feature I wish Syncthing had was untrusted peers like Resilio has. There has been an issue[0] open since 2014 but I guess there are still major challenges to this feature.

It would be great for me to be able to specify a certain node as encrypted and read-only like I can in Resilio. If a friend wanted to store his files on my machine and vice-versa, we could do so without being forced to give access to each others plaintext files. Likewise, if I wanted to spin up a VPS and host an untrusted node to help facilitate syncing but didn't want my unencrypted files to be sitting on the disk, I could do so easily.

[0] https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/109

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

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Post by dexterdog »

stevenringo wrote: post #11
liuliu wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to Syncthing with the main desktop backed up to S3 with zbackup (encrypted). Syncthing works really well (and faster!) when keeping laptops and desktops in sync for my case.

How do you use Syncthing with S3?

Just have a service on one of your nodes sync the local directory to S3 occasionally, but SyncThing doesn't do it for you.

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

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Post by etaioinshrdlu »

See also: https://github.com/archiecobbs/s3backer

Run a normal filesystem on top of S3! (Non-shared.)

In theory it might have really good performance due to your kernel caching blocks and files, and 25Gbit throughput to S3. Dependent of course on your instance being in EC2 and in the right region and having a big enough instance to get 25Gbit network.

I tried AWS EFS and found the performance very sad. Like 100Mbit even with a 25Gbit instance and the highest-specced EFS filesystem.

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

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Post by mobitar »

hannasanarion wrote: post #4

After Dropbox stopped supporting filesystems besides non-encrypted Ext4 I've dropped it entirely. I now use SpiderOak One, which doubles as E2E encrypted cloud backup in addition to folder sync.

If you want to have encryption with Dropbox, we just launched FileSafe at Standard Notes. It encrypts files client side then uploads to Dropbox (or any WebDAV server).

https://listed.standardnotes.org/@sn/2703/encrypt-your-dropb...

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

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Post by daze42 »

In light of what Storj.io is about to bring to market, I'm curious to see if this could be modified to work with it. I'm a huge fan of Dropbox and have used it almost every day for the past 7 years, but if a decentralized option comes along with feature parity and comparable pricing, I'd switch in a heartbeat.

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

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Post by lkurusa »

hannasanarion wrote: post #4

After Dropbox stopped supporting filesystems besides non-encrypted Ext4 I've dropped it entirely. I now use SpiderOak One, which doubles as E2E encrypted cloud backup in addition to folder sync.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. That was a pretty sad move on their part considering their argument about extended attributes made no sense whatsoever.

I personally switched over to MegaSync, I have an account from a while ago that has 50GB space for lifetime, which is enough for my PDFs.

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