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" ... in the event I die I'd rather the S3 bucket I hand over to my wife/kids in my last wishes look like a real filesystem rather than a bazillion blobs that r

by rsync 7y ago

" ... in the event I die I'd rather the S3 bucket I hand over to my wife/kids in my last wishes look like a real filesystem rather than a bazillion blobs that require a special tool ..." You'd need a cloud storage provider that just gave you a plain old UNIX filesystem to do whatever you want with. It's too bad nobody does that ...

anderspitman 7y ago
I was just about to pull out my rsync.net pitchfork before I saw the username. You should throwaway next time so as to not deprive me of the pleasure.
icebraining 7y ago
Wouldn't that require his wife to install and configure an SFTP client or something? B2 lets you use any browser.
waffle_ss 7y ago
It's too bad you guys cost ~2x as much for storage as S3 when I evaluated you in 2018... ($0.04/GB vs $0.023/GB) ;) Glad to see you're beating S3 in $/GB now!
PhantomGremlin 7y ago
You'd need a cloud storage provider that just gave you a plain old UNIX filesystem to do whatever you want with. Doesn't iCloud Drive fit the bill? Access to it is slightly obscure, i.e. ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ but wouldn't that work? It's free for me to use. That's because I'm already paying Apple $10/mo to backup the family's iPhones. We're only using a little over 200 GB out of the 2000 GB we have. (I'm sure that Apple is counting on most people not using their full amount). I've only put a few files out there, so maybe there are a lot of potential pitfalls. But it doesn't get much simpler than using cp or mv. In reality it's most emphatically not a "plain old UNIX filesystem". Apple is doing some magic and storing blobs out in Amazon S3 or in their own datacenters. But to me it has the appearance of a Unix (Posix?) filesystem. I realize that rsync.net couldn't survive with a business model that limits users to 2000 GB, which is Apple's maximum. But I thought I'd mention it, since it just might be the perfect "free" solution for a lot of people.

by rsync 7y ago

anderspitman 7y ago

I was just about to pull out my rsync.net pitchfork before I saw the username. You should throwaway next time so as to not deprive me of the pleasure.

icebraining 7y ago

Wouldn't that require his wife to install and configure an SFTP client or something? B2 lets you use any browser.

waffle_ss 7y ago

It's too bad you guys cost ~2x as much for storage as S3 when I evaluated you in 2018... ($0.04/GB vs $0.023/GB) ;) Glad to see you're beating S3 in $/GB now!

PhantomGremlin 7y ago

You'd need a cloud storage provider that just gave you a plain old UNIX filesystem to do whatever you want with. Doesn't iCloud Drive fit the bill? Access to it is slightly obscure, i.e. ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ but wouldn't that work? It's free for me to use. That's because I'm already paying Apple $10/mo to backup the family's iPhones. We're only using a little over 200 GB out of the 2000 GB we have. (I'm sure that Apple is counting on most people not using their full amount). I've only put a few files out there, so maybe there are a lot of potential pitfalls. But it doesn't get much simpler than using cp or mv. In reality it's most emphatically not a "plain old UNIX filesystem". Apple is doing some magic and storing blobs out in Amazon S3 or in their own datacenters. But to me it has the appearance of a Unix (Posix?) filesystem. I realize that rsync.net couldn't survive with a business model that limits users to 2000 GB, which is Apple's maximum. But I thought I'd mention it, since it just might be the perfect "free" solution for a lot of people.