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Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up. Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap bu
by pgt 6y ago
Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up.
Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.
- cblconfederate 6y agoi switched to microsoft 1Drive a long time ago, works seamlessly on windows
- pedro2 6y agoI am repeating myself from another thread but I'm 90% sure of the answer and no-one checks: are you sure OneDrive works well? Can you sync PST files? [1] [1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-madness/ https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...
- cblconfederate 6y agoI haven't had problems with files , but that might be just me. I had an issue in the past that it would crash . i removed and reinstalled and it s fixed now
- overlord_tm 6y agoCheck out https://koofr.eu/ https://koofr.eu/ Disclaimer: I work there :)
- Zhyl 6y agoI use SyncThing [0]. It can work without a server if your devices are often up at the same time. Otherwise you can get a small cheap server from the provider of your choice to suit your needs. [0] https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/
- vaduz 6y agoSyncThing is great when it works, but its platform support is spotty at best (notably lacks official iOS version, I found the Android one to be flaky and if you try to use it on a Chromebook, straight up does not work). It's great for serverless sync between Linux, freeBSD and Windows machines, though - it generally "just works". Didn't try it on macOS or Solaris, never had the need to.
- _Donny 6y agoI am really happy with Nextcloud!
- arendtio 6y agoPlus one for Nextcloud, which I use as a self-hosted version for years now. If you don't like the self-hosting part, there are even offers which make it simple, like the one from Hetzner[1]. But there are also other providers: https://nextcloud.com/signup/ https://nextcloud.com/signup/ (click 'Change Providers') [1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
- merlinscholz 6y agoI'm currently using onedrive for business (5$/month for 1tb, exchange and some other office goodies). I can highly recommend it, the privacy probably is not perfect with it being a Microsoft product after all. But the apps are superb and Android/iOS photo upload are a big plus.
- pedro2 6y agoI am repeating myself from another thread but I'm 90% sure of the answer and no-one checks: are you sure OneDrive works well? Can you sync PST files? [1] [1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-madness/ https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...
- merlinscholz 6y agoSince I currently do not own a Windows PC, I could only test using the web interface, Android and iOS app. All of them seem to work fine (~10MB .pst file), at least upload and download works and the hashsums match afterwards. If you want to test this yourself, Onedrive has a free tier you could try.
- tallanvor 6y agoFor the most part you should only be using .pst files for archiving, and those you should be able to sync in Outlook now. For Exchange/Exchange Online, Outlook uses a .ost file that lives in AppData, which is not synced by OneDrive.
- camhart 6y agoI like https://tresorit.com https://tresorit.com. It's end to end encrypted. Doesn't work as smoothly as Dropbox, but worth it IMO.
- pedro2 6y agoYah, looked at it too. Still thinking if E2EE is worth losing search and OCR.
- marcedwards 6y agoWhich search would you lose? Their iOS app has search, and on macOS your can use Finder’s search. I assume there’d be ways on Android, Windows and Linux as well. Actually, I just checked and their Mac and web apps also have search.
- pedro2 6y agoNot by contents, I'd assume.
- GreenWatermelon 6y agoThere is still One Drive if we are taking about the big guys. You could also look into seedboxes.
- pedro2 6y agoI am repeating myself from another thread but I'm 90% sure of the answer and no-one checks: are you sure OneDrive works well? Can you sync PST files? [1] [1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-madness/ https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...
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- ojno 6y ago"250 picodollars / byte-month" is just a hackish way of saying "$0.25 / gigabyte-month, pro-rated down to the byte."
- gus_massa 6y agoI always thought it was about avoiding the 1000 vs 1024 discussion https://xkcd.com/394/ https://xkcd.com/394/
- Iolaum 6y agoCheck out the nextcloudpi project. Paid once for the pi/drive/case 4 years ago and been a happy user ever since. It's been so worry free that when I had to move house I had to read the docs again to make sure I do things right. And that's on top of me studying the project well enough the first time I set it up that I ended up contributing some patches. P.S. There are hosted offerings for nextcloud but for a household with 2-5 users I think nextcloudpi has the best value proposition.
- benhurmarcel 6y agoYou need to set up a dynamic DNS, right?
- Iolaum 6y agoYes. I 've used a free offering from https://freedns.afraid.org/ https://freedns.afraid.org/ until I bought a domain of my own. There are other free offerings if you look around. Look at the documentation for the best supported options.
- PrimeDirective 6y agoSync ( www.sync.com ) is pretty good, I wish their app and web ui was a lot better, the search sucks but I have been a paying customer for two years now. I like that it doesn't force you to collaborate. And that it's quite barebones. I have a 49 bucks a year for 500gb plan, which they no longer offer, but I guess I'm grandfathered in
- thedanbob 6y agoI use a mix of syncthing and seafile. Syncthing is very simple to setup and pretty much set-and-forget. Seafile is more involved but the end result is closer to the classic Dropbox experience. If you’re not interested in self-hosting and just want a straight Dropbox replacement, I’d look into Nextcloud providers.
- marcedwards 6y agoI moved to Tresorit, and so far it’s been great. It’s end-to-end encrypted/zero-knowledge. The service is a little bit enterprise-y, but really solid. I’ve done all I can to test and and haven’t been able to flaw it. Merge conflicts end up as duped files, just like Dropbox, which is great. Their Mac app is good. It’s native and doesn’t use a ton of resources (I haven’t used it on other desktop platforms). AFAIK, it doesn’t support APFS extended attributes, so Finder tags won’t get synced. It does use the Finder sync extension API though. It works slightly differently to Dropbox — rather than just being a single folder that syncs, it’s more like selective sync, where you have multiple folders that are optionally synced. This confused me a little during setup, but I think I prefer it now. I tried pretty much all the other alternatives and didn’t like them. I’m already paying for iCloud Drive, so I’d love that to work, but it’s chewed up files or taken hours to sync on too many occasions, so I don’t trust it any more.
- CodesInChaos 6y ago250 picodollars / byte-month is $3000/TB/yr, which is very expensive even compared to the already expensive S3 (~$276/TB/yr). For reference, HDDs cost ~$20/TB, so you could buy a new HDD every 2.5 days for the cost of storing the data on tarsnap.
- szszrk 6y agoI really enjoy pcloud. It's simple, fast (I'm looking at your shitty galleries, OneDrive) and has a snappy mobile and linux app.
- matsemann 6y agohttps://www.jottacloud.com/en/ https://www.jottacloud.com/en/ has been around for over a decade.
- u678u 6y agoI just live with a NAS in my house, which syncs to S3.
- stonesweep 6y agoI'll add a +1 to pCloud (pcloud.com) - SyncThing doesn't fit my use case (I have no "one device to hold everything", it's all disparate laptops/phones) and I wanted a centralized location to store my encrypted backups and files and stuff. My requirements were integration with rclone and FolderSync (android app) to work natively with their APIs and it works like written on the tin. I was able to use rclone on a cloud server to transfer data out of Google Cloud (rclone can act as a local proxy to copy between services) and I'm able to use FolderSync on my mobile to keep it backed up. The pCloud branded mobile app is OK (nothing great), the webapp works well (again, just sort of works) and so far I've found no real problems with it - no failed syncs, my backups are backing up nicely, it just sort of works without fanfare.
- jasonv 6y agoThe pcloud pricing model is interesting/concerning. A one-time, life-time payment?
- stonesweep 6y agoAs I tend to go for the long game and expect to use it for years, I went for the lifetime (in my case it'll pay off itself within about 3 years), I was using Google Cloud storage buckets for longer than that so you know - financially for me, it works to replace the monthly fees for Google Cloud which was already a concrete cost. These types of pricing agreements are usually not sustainable for a company long-term, I go into the agreement with eyes open and I've got rclone ready to move the data again if I have to migrate. My actual expectation is that at some point, 500G will be "small" in provider terms and they'll offer upsells to 1TB, 2TB etc. over the life of my account trying to get me to the next level or some other features (which they already have - you can buy add-ons). Nothing wrong with that, I still get my portable 500G "for life" (of the Product) which suits my current space needs. I have enough portable space now that I can upload a hundred gigs of Music, something I wasn't able to do before (increased cost) and use that 500G space. (I had uploaded everything to Google Music over a decade...so... yeah) (edit: typos, wrong word/replaced)
- Dorian12 6y ago
- csomar 6y agoTarsnap is ridiculously expensive. Only use-case if you have small files (few gigabytes at most) and you want to use it to do backup with scripts/command-line and do care a lot about encryption.