Re: [OT] decentralized "cloud" storage - Opinions

On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 15:40:29 +0200, Soviet_Mario wrote:

> On 16/08/22 02:56, Killadebug wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 08:37:32 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> 
>>> Killadebug <[email protected]> writes:
>>>> I use Mega for my cloud storage. They offer "end to end encryption",
>>>> here is their definition of "end to end encryption" and how they
>>>> implement it.
>>>> I've been using their service since 2017 and I have never had an
>>>> issue.
>>>> They are very upfront, if you lose/forget your password and do not
>>>> have a backup copy of your recovery key, your data is toast, gone,
>>>> kaput.
>>>
>>> You might want to have a look at https://mega-awry.io/.
>> 
>> Excellent article. Thanl you for posting the link. It appears Mega has
>> acknowledged the issues and has corrected 3 out of the 5 listed. I use
>> their Linux desktop app, and receive regular updates to it.
>> 
>> Again thankyou for the link
>> 
>> 
> But this linux app, which features has ?
> 
> I mean, it keeps local copies of files or just in the cloud (like
> pCloud) ?
> If you connect more devices (if possible), does it do automatic syncing
> among them (Dropbox does, and has a really amazing features : when both
> local copies are newer than the last committed version, it automatically
> creates degenerated versions called "copy in conflict", sort of
> bidirectional updating).
> 
> I hate clouds that do not keep a true, complete, local copy for fast
> use. pCloud keeps only a cache, and since the connection is slow, is
> almost unusable locally
> 
> 
>>

The linux app keeps local files sync'd to the Mega servers ( the cloud). 
I've set it up to only sync specific folders, thunderbird, pan, 
Downloads, etc. Anytime a local file changes the linux app immediately 
syncs the file to their servers. If I delete a sync's file or folder 
locally, it is immediately deleted from their server. 

What I really like about their linux app is I check my email and it 
sync's, then I do an update or something else and I need to roll back my 
system from a previous btrfs snapshot using time since, say one from 3 
hours earlier. When I do that and reboot into the restored snapshot, the 
megasu-ync app immediately syncs the files from the cloud to my local 
machine and thunderbired is just like it was before the snapshot rollback.

No megasync does not us a local cache file like pcloud, it sync's all 
selected folders/files in the sync folder/file section of the app, in 
realtime. I tried pcloud, but dropped it because of the sync file issue, 
I have approximately 67 Gig worth of data I'm syncing, with pcloud that 
would be an additional 67 Gig cache, Mega allows me to have a realtime 
syncing which I think is more efficient use of space.



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