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I'm also a Dropbox on Linux user, are there other cloud storage services with better Linux client support? I was considering Google Drive but it doesn't seem to support Linux at all.

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"are there other cloud storage services with better Linux client support?"

My habit, of course, is to gently remind the reader of the existence of rsync.net[1][2][3] which, I hope, is the service that perfectly matches your unix/linux use-cases.

But in this comment thread, and to my parent specifically: I am genuinely curious - have you not ever heard of our service ? Very interested to learn this ...

[1] https://www.rsync.net/platform.html

[2] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html

[3] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/unix.html

Have not heard of rsync.net but I’ll check it out

Edit: the platform link is lacking a right margin on mobile, and the landing page’s hero image resizes the page when the URL bar appears/hides, at least on iOS

Looks like your prices have come down, but I still get a better price running my own 1TB storage server.

"have you not ever heard of our service?"

No I hadn't heard of rsync.net before. I even browsed a few 'listicles' and didn't come across it. I admit even if I had, I'd tend to lean towards more established clouds. But I'll certainly take a peek now since it seems to fit my bill. Thanks for the reminder.

"I admit even if I had, I'd tend to lean towards more established clouds."

Early winter of this year will mark 18 years that we've been providing cloud storage ... although it wasn't called cloud storage until we created the "rsync.net" corporate entity in 2005 ...

We'll be around if you decide to check us out :)

I’m using syncthing for file sync, and testing out spideroak for backup (plus just a hard drive locally). I like the idea of spideroak because it’s e2e encrypted, or so I understand, and syncthing has just worked decently well the last few years.

I tried sparkleshare once but it only syncs to Linux, and you have to set up a sync server

Still rely on Dropbox for file sharing with others though (however, Firefox send is an alternative now)

I'm using Google drive with insync which is really good but not free.

https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse is also a good alternative if you're happy with mounting your google drive folder. Gnome now also has pretty well working support for this built in.

Many people recommend Insync and while it may be good enough for people stuck with Google Drive on Linux, it doesn't match Dropbox's sync.

In my experience with Insync it crashes a lot and it's very slow compared with Dropbox. And of course they have GDrive's limitations, for example the inability to do block-level sync.

Recommending third party solutions is fine, but can you manage a 300 GB archive of files with them? And can you trust those solutions to not corrupt your data?

I know I wouldn't because I have a hard time trusting the official clients of GDrive or OneDrive after noticing them actually corrupting my data, so no thanks.

> In my experience with Insync it crashes a lot and it's very slow compared with Dropbox.

As a counter-datapoint, it has never crashed for me and is faster than Dropbox. Though I don't have 300GB files (might explain your crashes and speed issues).

GVFS (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs/backends) now provides a package that lets you log in to your Google Drive account and access it from Nautilus, but you have to be on GNOME for it.

This is very cool and I use it from time to time, but it's not actually keeping anything synced afaik (it's equivalent to the web ui, but very nicely integrated in gnome).

And KDE has kio-gdrive for the same thing with Dolphin.

Do you need it to be a commercial service? I just use nfs over wireguard, hosted at home on some old hardware I already had. Total cost: $0 Setup took no more than a few minutes.

Obviously that's not suitable for everybody for a number of reasons, but for me it's totally erased the appeal dropbox or anything like it.

I dropped Dropbox on Linux for (of all irony) OneDrive and am working through configuring the client that’s on Github.

I dropped Dropbox for the combination of OneDrive and Syncthing just yesterday. Doubt I'll go back. Dropbox can't be trusted anymore.

I also went with OneDrive--mostly because I hadn't realized how substantially superior OneDrive has become compared to Dropbox on Windows (particularly with selective sync).

I switched to Zoho Docs since I needed to sync across my Windows & Linux laptops (with ecryptfs on Ubuntu).

Their Linux client is great so far in my experience, considering I use it exclusively with Cryptomator (which syncs a lot more individual files).

I've had good luck with pCloud on linux. And you can exclude file patterns, which has been a big improvement for storing my code (ignore all node_modules directories).

MEGA, Seafile, NextCloud, pcloud

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