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The pricing for Google Drive is a lot less lumpy. I would switch to Google Drive fulltime if they only had an official linux client.

tomrod 14y ago
Do they have an official client for any OS? That being said--do you know how command-line connections are supported with GD? I'm see a potential open-source opportunity here.
- uxp 14y ago
  They have only Windows and OS X clients, officially[1], for desktops (Android and iOS are also both supported). They do have a public API, so you are free to make whatever you need to if you wish[2]. [1] https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2375078 https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... [2] https://developers.google.com/drive/ https://developers.google.com/drive/ edit: here are some various projects I found really quick, including a Linux client: https://github.com/gimite/google-drive-ruby https://github.com/gimite/google-drive-ruby https://github.com/Grive/grive https://github.com/Grive/grive https://github.com/tom-dignan/gdrive-cli https://github.com/tom-dignan/gdrive-cli
- timothya 14y ago
  There are official clients for OSX and Windows. I believe there is also an unofficial client for Linux built with the APIs GDrive provides.
rsync 14y ago
Why not just skip the abstraction layer and interface directly with your offsite backup using unix primitives, and tools like rsync ? I know there's a provider out there that does this ... on the tip of my tongue ...
- georgemcbay 14y ago
  Because I don't want just Linux. I use Linux, Android and Windows regularly. Also what I'm after isn't offsite backups but seamless directory syncing (with cloud storage to eliminate the need for peers to be online simultanously), which is related but not exactly the same. Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive fit this niche generally speaking but Dropbox is the only one that has full coverage across the OSes I use regularly.
  - caspar 14y ago
    SpiderOak does zero knowledge backup & sync across Windows, OSX, and various flavours of Linux, and has Android & iOS clients; 2GB free + 1 GB for each friend you refer, or $100/year for 100GB (deduplicated) and no limit on devices. The UX is not as nice as Dropbox, but I've been using a free account for about 2 years now and I'm pretty happy with the service and the support (especially given that I'm not a paying customer). Quirks are that deleted files count towards your quota until you delete them from the list of deleted files (deduplication makes this a bit less painful), and there isn't a way to bulk restore files deleted after a certain time.
- potkor 14y ago
  The abstraction the whole idea. Dropbox is expensive capacity that has much more functionality than offsite backup. It's multiplatform online shared storage with good disconnected operation support, file history, dedup, etc etc. Different use case.

tomrod 14y ago

Do they have an official client for any OS? That being said--do you know how command-line connections are supported with GD? I'm see a potential open-source opportunity here.

uxp 14y ago
They have only Windows and OS X clients, officially[1], for desktops (Android and iOS are also both supported). They do have a public API, so you are free to make whatever you need to if you wish[2]. [1] https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2375078 https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... [2] https://developers.google.com/drive/ https://developers.google.com/drive/ edit: here are some various projects I found really quick, including a Linux client: https://github.com/gimite/google-drive-ruby https://github.com/gimite/google-drive-ruby https://github.com/Grive/grive https://github.com/Grive/grive https://github.com/tom-dignan/gdrive-cli https://github.com/tom-dignan/gdrive-cli
timothya 14y ago
There are official clients for OSX and Windows. I believe there is also an unofficial client for Linux built with the APIs GDrive provides.

rsync 14y ago

Why not just skip the abstraction layer and interface directly with your offsite backup using unix primitives, and tools like rsync ? I know there's a provider out there that does this ... on the tip of my tongue ...

georgemcbay 14y ago
Because I don't want just Linux. I use Linux, Android and Windows regularly. Also what I'm after isn't offsite backups but seamless directory syncing (with cloud storage to eliminate the need for peers to be online simultanously), which is related but not exactly the same. Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive fit this niche generally speaking but Dropbox is the only one that has full coverage across the OSes I use regularly.
- caspar 14y ago
  SpiderOak does zero knowledge backup & sync across Windows, OSX, and various flavours of Linux, and has Android & iOS clients; 2GB free + 1 GB for each friend you refer, or $100/year for 100GB (deduplicated) and no limit on devices. The UX is not as nice as Dropbox, but I've been using a free account for about 2 years now and I'm pretty happy with the service and the support (especially given that I'm not a paying customer). Quirks are that deleted files count towards your quota until you delete them from the list of deleted files (deduplication makes this a bit less painful), and there isn't a way to bulk restore files deleted after a certain time.
potkor 14y ago
The abstraction the whole idea. Dropbox is expensive capacity that has much more functionality than offsite backup. It's multiplatform online shared storage with good disconnected operation support, file history, dedup, etc etc. Different use case.