Quick recap from what ive gathered from here and my own research:
Google: Aint an option anymore.. no unlimited storage
pcloud : Not an option no real unlimited storage
1fichier: Not an option. If you need to fiddle around with scripts to not move files to cold storage, and it does happen, you will have a bad time. (@durval found some shady payment practices going on, so no thanks ) Box.com: Not an option.. Api limitations and filesize limitations on the cheaper business accounts (chunker perhaps?)
Dropbox: Possibly an option. but from what ive heard here they are reluctant to increase storage for quite a few people.
LayerOnline: same as dropbox, but with the added issue that they setup a group account instead of you just owning 3 accounts.
Jottacloud: Not an option. Upload speeds will be down to dialup speeds when you are above 20-50 tb Sync.com: not usable through rclone (api not publicly available
Backblaze: too expensive for high data storage usages
It's interesting to note that the text you quoted says it's "not [suitable] for large backup processes" but does not say why. And the very next phrase ("pCloud does not limit [...]") seems to indicate exactly the opposite.
Are you forming your judgement just by that first phrase, or by some other experience, data or rationale?
I investigated 1fichier yesterday and what put me off was their "shady" payment options: no PayPal nor credit cards, they only take wire transfers (which would result in a large fee from my bank) and cryptocurrency payments (and impose large fees on the latter) or link to even shadier "resellers", and only one of them takes PayPal (also with a large fee).
I agree with you. I don't need 100-150TB (40TB would more than suffice right now, and 50TB would be enough for the foreseeable future), but they not saying clearly how much is allowable makes them not an option -- I've had enough rugs pulled from under me by Amazon and Google already.
I reached an english speaker. The 90 day thing was not mentioned by them.
They did offer to instantly fix all my problems if I went from 5users to 13 users, but at that price, I'd be better off buying a brand new 20tb hdd once a month and leaving them all in a drawer. I mean that's not an ideal solution, but 260$ a month is outrageous.
Although this does make me think, that your 90 day rule might be a hard and fast rule, BUT that the 90 day limit is PER user, so adding more users means the new users have their own brand new 90 day limit. Time to beg dropbox support (and set up a dropbox, and a vps oof I hate having to set new things up I am so inept.
TLDR: No help at all. But I did reach someone who could answer me in english and understand my question.
Oh hey, I never asked, but uh, has anyone in this thread been put into read-only mode and been able to use rclone to DOWNLOAD their files?
I'm going too only be about halfway done with my transfer when I enter read-only mode. Although worst case scenario I could just pay 260$ for one month (according to support)
My main concern is that "read-only" might disable my personal api token.
I do not know if this is the rule for everyone or just my personal case.
On Google Workspace I am already in read-only mode and Rclone works with my token
Please god let this be true. My grace period ends in 1.5 weeks and my migration should end in 4 weeks
edit: Then again I could buy a second VPS and get a second portion of 1gbps going to double my speed... yeah googledrive maxes out at 115MiB/sec BUT my VPS has to download and upload so 1gbps is more like 500mbps.
Have most/many of you who migrated done so with multiple VPS at once?
Create and edit very small files, up to ~1kB (with enough patience & retries only - can take hours to upload)
Update metadata for files and directories (timestamps, etc)
So basically, a rclone backend that handles content by storing it in 0-byte filenames should still work beautifully - as far as I remember, filenames can be ~32kB long at Google Drive
I am using Workspace Enterprise (before it was Google Suite and ACD) to backup my local NAS.
I give up with Google... just ordered some 18 TB Western Digital HDD.
Tomorrow they will arrive, I will switch the backup to these new HDDs and say goodbye to Google.
but I have transferred data from gdrive to dropbox 24/7 and reached from two servers the 24hours rolling limit of 10 TB downloaded
normally I've also no problems
it was just in the migration time
I am curious to find out 3 people who are sharing dropbox business subscription, can they see each other's data or if one of them is admin can he see other 2 users data? Also when people are buying subscription together and one of the 3 (who is not a admin) is using more than other 2 how is he/she able to request more than space? Does the 3rd person directly request with dropbox or only admin is allowed to request the increase. What if the admin don't request additional storage. What options the the person have (who is using more storage).
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