Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up.
Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.
Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.
It's great for serverless sync between Linux, freeBSD and Windows machines, though - it generally "just works". Didn't try it on macOS or Solaris, never had the need to.
For reference, HDDs cost ~$20/TB, so you could buy a new HDD every 2.5 days for the cost of storing the data on tarsnap.
My requirements were integration with rclone and FolderSync (android app) to work natively with their APIs and it works like written on the tin. I was able to use rclone on a cloud server to transfer data out of Google Cloud (rclone can act as a local proxy to copy between services) and I'm able to use FolderSync on my mobile to keep it backed up.
The pCloud branded mobile app is OK (nothing great), the webapp works well (again, just sort of works) and so far I've found no real problems with it - no failed syncs, my backups are backing up nicely, it just sort of works without fanfare.
My actual expectation is that at some point, 500G will be "small" in provider terms and they'll offer upsells to 1TB, 2TB etc. over the life of my account trying to get me to the next level or some other features (which they already have - you can buy add-ons). Nothing wrong with that, I still get my portable 500G "for life" (of the Product) which suits my current space needs. I have enough portable space now that I can upload a hundred gigs of Music, something I wasn't able to do before (increased cost) and use that 500G space. (I had uploaded everything to Google Music over a decade...so... yeah)
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Their Mac app is good. It’s native and doesn’t use a ton of resources (I haven’t used it on other desktop platforms). AFAIK, it doesn’t support APFS extended attributes, so Finder tags won’t get synced. It does use the Finder sync extension API though.
It works slightly differently to Dropbox — rather than just being a single folder that syncs, it’s more like selective sync, where you have multiple folders that are optionally synced. This confused me a little during setup, but I think I prefer it now.
I tried pretty much all the other alternatives and didn’t like them. I’m already paying for iCloud Drive, so I’d love that to work, but it’s chewed up files or taken hours to sync on too many occasions, so I don’t trust it any more.
If you’re not interested in self-hosting and just want a straight Dropbox replacement, I’d look into Nextcloud providers.
Actually, I just checked and their Mac and web apps also have search.
It's been so worry free that when I had to move house I had to read the docs again to make sure I do things right. And that's on top of me studying the project well enough the first time I set it up that I ended up contributing some patches.
P.S. There are hosted offerings for nextcloud but for a household with 2-5 users I think nextcloudpi has the best value proposition.
Look at the documentation for the best supported options.
If you don't like the self-hosting part, there are even offers which make it simple, like the one from Hetzner[1].
But there are also other providers:
https://nextcloud.com/signup/ (click 'Change Providers')
[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...
If you want to test this yourself, Onedrive has a free tier you could try.
For Exchange/Exchange Online, Outlook uses a .ost file that lives in AppData, which is not synced by OneDrive.
You could also look into seedboxes.
[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...
[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...