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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
by PhantomGremlin 6y 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.