On 16 February 2011 11:36, Dave Hanson <d.han...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> I sure you can tell from the subject where this is going :) > > I'm particularly keen to find out what everyones preferred online storage > solution is and why, I ask because I am struggling to find one suitable for > Ubuntu, here's what I have tried; > > - Ubuntu One (obviously) > > The main issue with this for me is that it seems to be ALWAYS doing > something in the background even if there is nothing to sync, and when it > does do the syncing it's so sloooow. I'm not moving huge files around but > some are a good few MB in size and a the cluttered directory structure I use > accompanied with the large amount of small files just don't seem to be > suited as it can take an absolute age for the browser based version of > Ubuntu One to correspond to what my local folder contains once I have moved > something around or added to the folder. > > - Spider Oak > > It seemed ideal at first as I study at University, Spider Oak boasts that > it will automatically backup my files each time I save and keep a copy for > me at no cost to my storage limit, excellent? Not quite, the backup of the > files is true but the use of space is not, and I have already run out of my > allowance. You can download the files from their site, but you cannot then > upload!? - odd. (well, it seems odd to me anyway?) The uploads/syncing also > seems to be a lot quicker than One. > > - Sky Drive/Live Mesh (I know it's a bit taboo talking about MS here, > apologies in advance) > > The best I have tried in my opinion, fast syncing & uploads, didn't seem to > be doing a huge about in the background wasting resources and the Sky Drive > also comes with 25GB of online storage, The drive can also be mounted to > windows so it seems like a standard drive. shame it can't be ran on Ubuntu > as I have recently made the permanent 'switch' and abandoned Windows all > together. > > So that concludes my (very) shortlist and my experiences, And as I say "I'm > particularly keen to find out what everyones preferred online storage > solution is and why". > > I've used JungleDisk for a couple of years and it's cheap and reliable. The client is cross-platform (it's FUSE based on Linux and Mac) and you just pay for the storage that you use. When it started it was Amazon S3 based but it's owned by Rackspace now so it's probably based on their Cloudfiles service. Dropbox is also good, more so because it's also available on phones as well as PCs, but I tend to use that for files that I need available everywhere rather than backups. I've had a look at Ubuntu One recently but I'm not keen on the proprietary aspects, or its lack of support for Mac as yet. The additional services aren't that compelling either. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood My CV: http://bit.ly/sfg <http://bit.ly/sfgreenwood_cv>_new_cv "Is this your sanderling?"
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