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

On 17/08/22 02:47, Killadebug wrote:
> 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, 

not really true (I am a 2 TB paid user of pCloud), the 
amount of cache used is up to your choice (I devoted 10 GB 
for instance), but pCloud caching is not really useful to 
work in remote. It does not hold any actual DATA, it just 
keeps headers (some descriptors used by the app to indicize 
the data). Their use is just to allow a loop device to mount 
a virtual partition very fast at startup and to give the 
illusion to manipulate a local disk (which is not). There is 
no data in it, essentially.
Time ago I made a small SW to copy files from pCloud virtual 
partition to a local partition in gambas, tracking the 
transfer times ... a slaughter : the bottleneck was the slow 
connection.

anyway, I might have understood that Mega App is not smart 
enough to manage access conflicts (not any single version 
newer than the reference stored remotely), which implies to 
work very tidely and orderly when accessing from more 
devices at a time.
I happen to forgive this, and so I risk to unwittingly lose 
some files :\


> Mega allows me to have a realtime
> syncing which I think is more efficient use of space.

sure ... but you evidently have an efficient internet 
connection. I just have a mobile 150 GB/month connection, 
also very slow and unstable.



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