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we use Google drive it has "small packages" 100 200 GB that are really cheap.


Same. It isnt as nice as Dropbox as there doesn't seem to be any linux support, so I use Grive running as a cron job.

It does run on ZFS though. I never realised Dropbox didn't. I guess that puts to rest that ocasssional nagging thought that maybe it would be worth the extra £8 or so to move to Dropbox.


> It does run on ZFS though. I never realised Dropbox didn't.

It did. For years. But recently they added additional code to intentionally cripple it on non-ext4 systems.

Messing up working setups for existing users like that is just plain unprofessional.

I’m leaving, and this was the main reason: effectively no Linux-support.

Edit: after reading this announcement, I’m absolutely terrified. Setting up Nextcloud is now next on my to-do list.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a product pivot go this bad. I wonder how all the engineers at Dropbox feels about this.


I am quite happy with Insync, which implements a dropbox like client on top of Google Drive and works on Linux.


Have you ever looked at Perkeep (former Camlistore)?




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