This has been on my mind for a couple years: Creation of a unified
module repo in one of the major cloud storage systems. Some months ago,
I got around to fiddling with things enough to make it a possibility.
I'm wondering how useful others might find this, and whether users could
put it to use if it was offered publicly.
Google Drive has been the most obvious candidate for storage because it
has, as far as I know, the most generous space for free usage. Along
with filesystem tools like rclone and sshfs, it's possible to glue many
random things around the net into a filesystem as a quasi-local reference.
If you're not aware of rclone, see https://rclone.org/ where you'll
learn it's "rsync for cloud storage." It has support for Windows, Linux,
and MacOS. Most importantly to me, rclone has a FUSE-driven mount
capability, by which I can simply glue remote filesystems to my own. So
I use sshfs to mount ftp.xiphos.org and ftp.crosswire.org (because I
have personal creds there), and rclone with an anon configuration to
mount eBible and IBT. Then I use rsync from each to push it all into my
Google Drive.
I have cloned 11 repos into my personal GDrive, using a script that can
update them regularly (though it's manual so far, not yet cron-driven):
crosswire/pub/sword/atticraw
crosswire/pub/sword/betaraw
crosswire/pub/sword/dbgraw
crosswire/pub/sword/experimentalraw
crosswire/pub/sword/lockmanraw
crosswire/pub/sword/raw
crosswire/pub/sword/wyclifferaw
crosswire/pub/bible-org/sword
xiphos/pub/xiphos
ebible
ibt
These occupy ~5Gbytes. Then the user could surf this shared link for my
GDrive to connect at his end:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nDVZRDfs8EtdXV_aKpbea1YbSEOSyJW5
...and then an rclone configuration at his end will let him get at these
things directly using "local" filesystem references with
InstallMgr.conf's "DIRSource=" directive.
I'm a networks guy, so this is in part a technical toy to me. But it
requires someone adept enough to use GDrive in the 1st place, and to use
rclone to get at their GDrive.
It's likely that I've overthought this to a degree. Nonetheless what do
others think about the availability of all repos in a one-stop-shopping
motif under a common subtree?_______________________________________________
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