How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming?
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Nextcloud has great sync clients for linux, iPhone and Windows. (It has clients for Mac and Android too, although I've never used them.) And google doesn't get access to my data or metadata.
I think, if I really would want to go setting up my own thing to save money, setting/writing some service backed by object storage (AWS S3) would be cheaper and reliable enough.
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
That said, my point was with little extra money -- features such as easy sharing, security, versioning, nice mobile apps, and time saved moving around things manually (like photos), offline access (and if you use rsync cron, not worrying about conflicts) etc makes it worth that extra few $$$.
It's not to be taken seriously.
[1] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/21/dropbox-lets-any...
[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dropbox#Using_Dropbox_w...
I use nextcloud but I already have a k8s cluster where I host my stuff like calendars, notes, decks, S3.
One 10Gi volume is 1USD/month where I host mine. Yes, more expensive, but I don't need 2TB and also how come Dropbox can offer storage that cheap? What's their incentive?
Also I still use my Google account and if I add it into Fedora my Google drive appears in the Gnome file manager. So I'm confused about the lack of Gdrive client, I assume they mean from Google. But all Google has to do is expose APIs and docs and someone else will write one.
You would get way more than 20 GB.
But I have in fact also left my nextcloud on the web. I'm not that worried.
Just have to stay informed on any big vulns, and I also stay as many releases as I can behind the bleeding edge. That helped me avoid the recent fidokey issue.
Sidenote: Look how tiny that item ID is in the URL!
Dropbox is the best syncing solution technically, though GDrive is probably competitive.
If you need it for business, pay for it and go to AWS, Backblaze, GCP, Dropbox, etc.
On the thread's subject, I use rclone to access it - works great.
You need your own domain and set up GSuite Business account on it or a subdomain. Included in the offer: Google Drive - Unlimited cloud storage. The "or 1TB per user if fewer than 5 users" bit is not technically enforced. Even if it were, I think $60/month is still very competitive if you need to store dozens of terabytes.
Sticker price currently $12/month but there are also discounted offers available if you look for them
It’s about ~$49/yr in my country and even though I hate to deal with OneDrive compared to Dropbox, can’t beat the price as I anyway buy Office 365.
Google drive and dropbox are better deals for storage, so I can see why they'd be attractive for people who need more.
A 250GB SSD is what? 30$ these days?
You could buy a lot of SSD's for that over the course of a year, and have the storage local.
I naievely kept using my regular account, even when GSuite accounts became possible, because of course Google would deliver on this promise. Never happened. Seven years later, Google Plus shut down.
Mount?
>handles interruption/resume of syncing.
"Transfers over limited bandwidth; intermittent connections, or subject to quota can be restarted, from the last good file transferred."
[1] https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/
[2] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365/onedrive-o...
To get the key you need to use the web browser to complete the set up.
Fuse driver wrapper
The lack of official Linux client was the killer for me years ago, but prior to fibre internet the uncertainty was a big issue too.
People want to plan around services like this remaining. Nothing is certain, but the news quite often talks about Google dropping another service.
I'm feel pretty secure that it won't be, but I've heard enough horror stories that I would have a backup strategy.
If you want to compare, compare to Dropbox.
one of my absolute top GOTO tools.
I would be really uneasy to let a third-party have access to my files, when there are such good alternatives.
If I could NFS-mount Drive from within fstab, Google would earn even more of my money.
This is wishful thinking. Across their product line Google extends and abuses common standards, or more frequently rolls their own parallel which dominates by virtue of convenience and userbase.
Try using an organizational (GSuite) Google Calendar account from any app that isn't Google Calendar, and it'll quickly become clear that this use-case simply isn't optimized for. Simple things like sharing calendars with write access don't work without finding a particular settings page that hasn't been updated since 2009.
There is also no API for room reservation systems if an organization is using Google Calendar for those that I can find.
And of course, need I mention the casualties of RSS compatible Reader and XMPP/Jabber compatible GTalk?
The parallel to Microsoft's 90s EEE modus operandi is plainly evident. But with Google, it even stretches into web standards. Google has shown little interest in being a good citizen of an open protocol-based ecosystem, except at first to get new users into the walls before they close the gates.
Standards compliance is good for customers. What is good for customers is ultimately good for the company.
I guess everyone is peeved that they don't get the "syncing" aspect of Drive w/ desktop mounts, but it works for me, as I personally use Drive as more of a cloud storage thing.
Is it somewhere else?
[DISCLAIMER: I'm 99% sure that was all that was involved. But I set up that Linux box quite a while back. So apologies if I've forgotten a step and am misleading people!]