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Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

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Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

#21

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.

You can make an Ext4 filesystem in a file, loopback mount that and point Dropbox at it. Works just fine.

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

#22

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.

What's the considered opinion on SpiderOak after the whole warrant canary thing? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696276

Personally I was a Spideroak customer for 2 years or so and moved to Tresorit after the canary thing. They offer very similar features but their apps are a lot better. Spideroak always felt quite clunky. Also, the servers are based in Europe.

I don't think either is great to use with lots of data as upload and download seem quite slow, but for my use case of just storing documents it is fine.

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

#25

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.

SpiderOak has some serious performance issues if you have a lot of data. I just wanted to back up a few hundred GB of data but the client wouldn't do more than ~10Mbit/s on my gigabit line.

Also worth noting their "zero-knowledge" stuff is broken as soon as you log in to the website or use one of the mobile apps, at which point the server has your key.

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

#26

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 e…

EFS performance was tied to how much storage you were using (at the rate of 50KiB/s per GB stored… with the ability to burst to 100MiB/s based on a credit system. A file system storing 256GiB can sustain 12.5MiB/s and burst to 100MiB/s for up to 180 minutes per day.

If you like, you can now specifically provision throughput for EFS at the rate of about $6 per MiB/s (8Mbps) per month.

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

#27

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.

You can make an Ext4 filesystem in a file, loopback mount that and point Dropbox at it. Works just fine.

Or just use disk-level encryption (like LUKS).

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

#28
I'll just note that you can mount Dropbox as a file system with rclone ( https://rclone.org/ ) using the rclone mount subcommand.

rclone mount also works with the 20 or so cloud providers supported by rclone (s3, gcs, swift, box, dropbox, b2, etc).

rclone runs on Linux, Windows, macOS and quite a few other architectures! It is written in Go.

Re: Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

#30

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.

How about truecrypt/veracrypt with Dropbox ?

Nope. I run that (on windows) and got an email telling me I wouldn't be able to use it on that machine any more.
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