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Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

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Post by hrjet » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:21 PM UTC

brewdad wrote: post #98

diminish wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For something as important as "file storage" 12 months would be a safer option to make sure everyone was alerted and reacted. Or Ubuntu may keep the files as torrents/tars after that for up to 12 months and ask for a payment of for download.

The problem with an extended shutdown is that it eliminates any sense of urgency to act. If I know I only have 2 months to find a new provider, I'll start searching and migrating now. Give me a year, and I'll ignore the problem for 10 months before acting.

Yeah, but it is better to cover for the users who won't be aware soon rather than the users who are aware but wouldn't care soon enough.

Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

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Post by jff » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:21 PM UTC

glutamate wrote: post #62

"Our strategic priority for Ubuntu is making the best converged operating system for phones, tablets, desktops and more" I guess a server OS is also not a strategic priority. Oh well. What is a good Debian-based server OS that is a bit more up-to-date than Debian (and also a strategic priority for its developer)?

Just use Debian Testing. If you find a "Debian-based server OS that is a bit more up-to-date", odds are they're just repackaging testing or unstable anyway.

Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

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Post by petrel » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:27 PM UTC

Thank God. It was a pathetic service and it was an adventure to solve the captcha used while creating a new account.

Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

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Post by jafaku » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:27 PM UTC

tyleregeto wrote: post #54

I'm one of the heavy users of this. It integrates with all my devices better than other options. Google Still hasn't released a Linux client and the dropbox app has been very flakey for me in Ubuntu. I've set my phone camera pics auto sync to all my devices. All my music and photos are backed up with Ubuntu One. When I upgrade my OS version, I sync all important files here. When I switched jobs late last year, my mus…

> and the dropbox app has been very flakey for me in Ubuntu

What do you mean? I used it for years on both Ubuntu and Fedora, never had an issue.

Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

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Post by jkh123 » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:34 PM UTC

tdobson wrote: post #21

Bye Bye UbuntuOne. You should have been OwnCloud, not a Dropbox wannabe.

This! I welcome the step. It is more tha about time to move away from centralized Services. Hope more will follow.

Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

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Post by diminish » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:38 PM UTC

hrjet wrote: post #131

brewdad wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with an extended shutdown is that it eliminates any sense of urgency to act. If I know I only have 2 months to find a new provider, I'll start searching and migrating now. Give me a year, and I'll ignore the problem for 10 months before acting.

Yeah, but it is better to cover for the users who won't be aware soon rather than the users who are aware but wouldn't care soon enough.

yeah that's what i meant. People in special conditions who won't check their emails may lose all files... freezing in 4 months and keeping for 12 months may ensure nothing valuable is lost.

Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

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Post by WaxProlix » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:39 PM UTC

tyleregeto wrote: post #54

I'm one of the heavy users of this. It integrates with all my devices better than other options. Google Still hasn't released a Linux client and the dropbox app has been very flakey for me in Ubuntu. I've set my phone camera pics auto sync to all my devices. All my music and photos are backed up with Ubuntu One. When I upgrade my OS version, I sync all important files here. When I switched jobs late last year, my mus…

You could try SugarSync? It's fairly flexible and, if you're the type of person who can stomach it, works flawlessly under wine. There are solid native mobile apps and a good web interface, too.

Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

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Post by amatix » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:47 PM UTC

tyleregeto wrote: post #54

I'm one of the heavy users of this. It integrates with all my devices better than other options. Google Still hasn't released a Linux client and the dropbox app has been very flakey for me in Ubuntu. I've set my phone camera pics auto sync to all my devices. All my music and photos are backed up with Ubuntu One. When I upgrade my OS version, I sync all important files here. When I switched jobs late last year, my mus…

For Google Drive, inSync works well on Linux: https://www.insynchq.com/linux (and supports multiple accounts which GDruve doesn't support on any platform)

Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

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Post by schmichael » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:52 PM UTC

rkalla wrote: post #30

Did the timelines seem awfully aggressive to anyone? (June 1 service stops, July 31 all data is erased) For a service that we were suppose to be syncing our lives to, that seems like a really abrupt, customer unfriendly ramp-down. I would have expected something more like: 1. April 1 - no new accounts. 2. May 1 - can no longer add files to your existing account. 3. May - Dec - nagged/reminded constantly to pull your…

It was barely used and very easy to replace with free services like Dropbox. I'm sure the few users it did have are savvy enough to migrate off within the relatively short time frame.

Re: Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

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Post by berdario » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #44

voyou wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The standard Ubuntu install includes Deja Dup, which does encrypted backups to Ubuntu One. I don't remember ever seeing much marketing of this feature from Canonical, though.

Deja-Dup however was rather buggy... for my machines it corrupted all backups I had and I had to restore data from duplicitys broken indexes for at least two more people. A rather bad track record for software that is there to prevent you from losing data :/

Agree, I got corrupted backup data as well, and DejaDup failed to restore a single file from a directory (but the file was actually backedp up correctly, so I managed to recover it by restoring the WHOLE disk backup on another volume and fetching it from there)

On top of that, also the backup process itself was unbearably slow... I really wanted a backup tool built upon inotify, so now I'm using Crashplan (it's not open source, but at least it works on linux)