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I've been using grive for a few months on a few different Linux boxes, including some running on ARM/Linux. It works really well in my experience. Not quite a
by georgemcbay 14y ago
I've been using grive for a few months on a few different Linux boxes, including some running on ARM/Linux.
It works really well in my experience. Not quite as slick as the install-and-forget-it nature of Google Drive for Win/Mac, or Dropbox for Win/Mac/Linux, but it does what it says on the tin and I like that because it is fully FOSS I can easily take it with me on ARM/Linux.
- dfc 14y agoIf you want slick, install and forget in an open source package try out git-annex in assistant mode. http://git-annex.branchable.com/ http://git-annex.branchable.com/
- andrewflnr 14y agoI tried. I really, really tried, but I could not get it to install on Arch, with either AUR or cabal. Dependencies were broken, wouldn't even compile.
- dfc 14y agoThe only thing better than joeyh's software (git-annex, moreutils, etckeeper, etc) is the way he handles bugreports. Post a description of your troubles to the branchable wiki.
- keidian 14y agoI'm guessing that you only use it for occasional syncing then? Or do you use something like incron to look for changes then run grive, giving it more of an automatic sync?
- georgemcbay 14y agoI haven't bothered to set up a cron job, partly because I tend to reimage the ARM devices I use grive on quite often, but yeah there's nothing I know of stopping someone from setting grive up to run automatically. Still not quite as nice as the other clients which subscribe to file change notifications, but more seamless than running it manually for sure.
- keidian 14y agoAh ok. I looked at it and noticed it didn't sync when changes were done. Incron should work in theory, but I haven't tried it. The lack of a headless gdrive client for linux & the fact that I still use windows on a few systems is why I still use dropbox. Was just curious how well it worked in practice