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Huh. That was the only reason I used it. What has the most space now, Amazon Drive?

I switched to Syncthing a while back and haven't looked back. It's self-hosted, so there are no storage limits, and if you care to put in the work (setup is a tad more complex), it's also pretty easy to hook it up to a cloud server, which nets you an off-site backup.

Syncthing doesn't quite have the "Just Works" factor that Dropbox's offering has, but I don't need that; the ability to synchronize several terrabytes of my personal archives (I have a lot of data) was more than worth the effort.

https://syncthing.net/

I wouldn't recommend having syncthing be your only backup, at least for important files (like photos/videos of your kids). It was a couple years ago, but a syncthing bug was eating large files.

Take this anecdotal report with a dash of salt. It didn't happen to me. Happened to a friend of mine. That said, I wouldn't make Google Drive or Dropbox your only backup either.

More generally: sync is not backup. Backups need to have versioning (like Time Machine) or manual syncing (like rsync to external/remote drive).

I'm thinking of switching to syncthing soon, but I would probably recommend resilio to less techy types since it seems like its slightly easier to use, especially if you are paying the subscription fee where you can have all your folders added on new computers

I'm a fan of Nextcloud, which is self hosted and very nice.

I use OneDrive with the unofficial client by abraunegg. It works _almost_ flawlessly; and the twice now that I've had a bug they've fixed it within 24h; even when one happened on a Saturday.

https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive

Last time I checked they didn't only sell space, you needed to buy office 365 personal.

Yep, but I use that as well; there's a good Web interface.

I'm all in on mega, since there exist command line tools for it and linux support. Also if you're ever subject to high latency or buffer bloat or anything that might slow normal http traffic to a crawl, there's something about the way they deliver data that can always download at full speed.

Try mega.nz. 50 Gb for free. It has a Linux client that works quite well.

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