Cloud Storage Options
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Hello, I was wondering what everyone uses for cloud storage? My ideal setup would be to build myself a new computer and use the current (old) one to setup proxmox and have a nextcloud storage setup and have my own cloud, but finances aren’t allowing me to do that currently. Maybe some day. So I am stuck with the likes of OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox and those types of solutions.
What do you use for your solution. Is it pricey? Is there enough storage? You know the usual questions around that topic.
Thank you!
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Hello, I was wondering what everyone uses for cloud storage? My ideal setup would be to build myself a new computer and use the current (old) one to setup proxmox and have a nextcloud storage setup and have my own cloud, but finances aren’t allowing me to do that currently. Maybe some day. So I am stuck with the likes of OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox and those types of solutions.
What do you use for your solution. Is it pricey? Is there enough storage? You know the usual questions around that topic.
Thank you!
@Madchatthew from my perspective, I was (and still am) a Google drive user, but more recently I moved to onedrive because of the much higher storage level and cheaper on cost.
Whilst I’m no fan of Microsoft or its security practices, I do have an office 365 subscription of my own for family usage. My family are familiar with the office suite of products, and whilst LibreOffice for example is very good, it lacks the familiarity of 365.
My Google drive is only 100Gb and I’ve had it for years. It’s actually not that cheap either but I keep it because of the convenience. I’ve even copied the data put to onedrive so it’s nothing more than laziness on my part that I’ve kept it running this long.
Ideally, I’d prefer to have my own private cloud but with that comes backup etc. If I did go down that rabbit hole, I’d go for a NAS storage box and then some form of cloud backup.
Mark – Founder, Phenomlab Ltd
Executive IT & Security Leadership
Phenomlab Ltd -
@Madchatthew from my perspective, I was (and still am) a Google drive user, but more recently I moved to onedrive because of the much higher storage level and cheaper on cost.
Whilst I’m no fan of Microsoft or its security practices, I do have an office 365 subscription of my own for family usage. My family are familiar with the office suite of products, and whilst LibreOffice for example is very good, it lacks the familiarity of 365.
My Google drive is only 100Gb and I’ve had it for years. It’s actually not that cheap either but I keep it because of the convenience. I’ve even copied the data put to onedrive so it’s nothing more than laziness on my part that I’ve kept it running this long.
Ideally, I’d prefer to have my own private cloud but with that comes backup etc. If I did go down that rabbit hole, I’d go for a NAS storage box and then some form of cloud backup.
@phenomlab yeah i am thinking of using the onedrive and/or google drive as well and just keep separate things on them to break up how much data is on them. It sounds funny to have microsoft on linux for the one drive though haha
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@phenomlab yeah i am thinking of using the onedrive and/or google drive as well and just keep separate things on them to break up how much data is on them. It sounds funny to have microsoft on linux for the one drive though haha
@Madchatthew for onedrive to work under Linux, you’d need to use something like InSync. It’s not free, but not expensive either, and works flawlessly.
Mark – Founder, Phenomlab Ltd
Executive IT & Security Leadership
Phenomlab Ltd -
@Madchatthew for onedrive to work under Linux, you’d need to use something like InSync. It’s not free, but not expensive either, and works flawlessly.
@phenomlab I wonder if the rsync app would work for that too? That one worked for protondrive. I don’t remember seeing onedrive or google on it though.
I just looked it up. I would have to use rclone as a bridge but then rsync would work from there.
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@phenomlab I wonder if the rsync app would work for that too? That one worked for protondrive. I don’t remember seeing onedrive or google on it though.
I just looked it up. I would have to use rclone as a bridge but then rsync would work from there.
@Madchatthew it should do, yes. How’ve, whilst it would be OK for traditional backup, version history would likely require more effort.
You’ll also need to use something like
OAUTH2to establish connectivity.Mark – Founder, Phenomlab Ltd
Executive IT & Security Leadership
Phenomlab Ltd -
@Madchatthew it should do, yes. How’ve, whilst it would be OK for traditional backup, version history would likely require more effort.
You’ll also need to use something like
OAUTH2to establish connectivity.@phenomlab I will have to test this out in my virtual environment. I have an Arch KDE Plasma install in virtualbox that I am testing a bunch of things out before I actually wipe the hard drive and install linux. I am currently in the process of copying my Arch test web server over to virtualbox on linux to make sure that it works. This is the virtual server that I test updates on before updating the production server. I can’t remember the error I was getting but I think it had to do with the network device. That was on the virtualbox side. So the cloud storage will be the next thing that I test.
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