[SOLVED] Freemium online drive with command line access?
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I've tried to find freemium online drives with Linux support. But all I've found propose Web or GUI clients. Is there anything with command-line access? Like sshfs or something?
P.S. If not, maybe some GUI clients with automatizing? Like syncing all changes (if any) every few minutes?
If you're storing data on someone else's machine then you ought to encrypt it first. A simple approach could be a VPS accessed via Rsync or SSHFS to upload tarballs wrapped by GPG. However, a VPS will cost a monthly fee. Another way to pay a monthly fee might be to use Tarsnap, which might or might not be economically feasible depending on how much and what kind of data you have.
It's my own laptop. I need an option to back up my data online. And in particular, to sync it between my personal and office laptops. I don't need any encryption.
For my text / source code projects, GitHub works well. I need something for my binary data. Which could be automatized with shell scripts and anacron. Or at least with its own client - but with auto-sync.
I think there's something similar to sshfs for Google Drive if you use that service.
I've already established a connection to my Google Drive and am now trying it. It has its own command syntaxes (some are not so obvious) - but all in all, its concept is very close.
I use rclone with the mount option for about 6 cloud storage solutions. The only one that is problematic is gdrive: they (Alphabet) keep messing with the API and security for that one.
I use rclone with the mount option for about 6 cloud storage solutions. The only one that is problematic is gdrive: they (Alphabet) keep messing with the API and security for that one.
I am using rclone with google drive for many years and had no issues at all. Google probably changes something now and again, but all you have to do is keep your rclone up to date.
I am using rclone with google drive for many years and had no issues at all. Google probably changes something now and again, but all you have to do is keep your rclone up to date.
I couldn't rclone mount my gdrive - it just never ended. But rclone copy works well.
The 70 supported cloud storage providers are listed on this page https://rclone.org/#providers
and the documented way to connect is in the (seriously huge) man page.
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