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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.
Waiting for someone to implement dropbox-based deployment of a PHP site.
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 looks interesting. The biggest features for me missing from other "sync a folder to the cloud" type services are selective syncing on a machine-by-machine basis and generating public links for my files. These are the only two things keeping me away from iCloud Drive.
I have a "work" folder that is synced to my work laptop and desktop, but not my personal laptop.
I haven't used the "share" feature, but it exists and it says right at the top of the tab in the client that it's for making public links.
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.
Just checked them out. They're pricing is super competitive too. Do they have the 'un-delete' feature that Dropbox has?
Each of your computers is associated with a "deleted items bin" where files go when the backup finds you delete them locally. They never get automatically deleted (even when you've reached your backup quota? the website isn't clear).
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.
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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…
Waiting for someone to implement dropbox-based deployment of a PHP site.