How'd you do that?
The set-up period was, of course, long, but it is now going very well. A bit of planning and good organisation goes a long way.
I got 5 API keys striped across the OneDrives, to minimise throttling.
I set up a Telegram bot to alert me in case any of the OneDrive remotes is/are not accessible.
Now the media are all there, I don't have to do much in terms of maintenance. The biggest issues are two:
a) Each OneDrive has from 5GB to maybe 30ish GB of free space left. As I download large files, it is hard to play Tetris and fit them optimally, so there is still some movement required (feels like I am defragging OneDrives) to fit a new thing.
b) I notice that Jellyfin freezes at random parts in random files, and so far I am suspecting lag between OneDrive and my server to be the culprit, although I am not sure. I have set up vfs-cache, and will be posting soon to ask advice as to the optimal settings for OneDrive.
Other than that, it all works fine, currently sitting at just over 30TB total. It is half the price I would have been paying Dropbox with the original 'unlimited' plan.
The most important part is knowing exactly what is where, in case something doesn't work (so you know exactly where to look) or you need to move something to make space etc. Seriously, now the bulk set-up is done, I don't feel like I need to manage much at all.
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I can't post instructions as it's against moderator wishes.
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Box cloud storage down amid 'critical' outage couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch
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Looks like their karma just ran over their dogma!
Seriously, Box sucked so much and so badly for our use case with largeish volumes, that it's no wonder they suck for everyone and everything else.
I just hope they go eff themselves in a lake, crash and burn, and eat flaming death, not necessarily in that order...
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So today Google deleted my complete company agsuite Account and all Data is gone. Can Not Login anymore. So the Idea of "pay for 2 years and use the Stored Data in read only mode" is gone. My Account was in read only mode since 3 August 2023.
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Sorry to hear it, and thanks for letting us know.
Did they at least give you proper warning? How many days in advance did they warn you of the removal?
So barely 4 months total in RO mode... pfftt. I hope you managed to copy all your data before they erased it.
For those who received an account suspension email, if you contact support, they will give you only once additional 14-day grace period , during which you must reduce your storage to 5TB or less, after which your account will be deleted.
During that time, I think you may take steps such as adding a license.
- Edited: Just in case, I meant that if you contact support even when your account is blocked, you'll get one more grace period (14days). If you have any data you haven't backed up yet, please refer to it.
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Yes right, they send me 14 days ago the First warning and then 7 days later a warning and one Yesterday.
I just took a closer look and my account is only blocked and I can't access the data. will be deleted in the future.
I can now Export all Data but In the last few months I have downloaded all the important data and saved locally 3 times. So Google Workspace has now died for me.It was a good time but all the nice things will eventually come to an end.
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2 weeks seems cutting it a little too close (I for one would not have managed to copy everything I have in only 2 weeks). Did their original email(the one from August) advised that data would be removed now (December)?
Yeah, good on their part, +14 days would make it 4 weeks total and that should be enough even if they hadn't alerted to the data erasure in the previous months.
No. Since August they only send E-Mails that i am over mit storage Quota and my Files in read only mode. Not more. But I expected it to be completely blocked and therefore started backing up the most important data early on.
Now 60$ monthly and 20$ per 10TByte
There is a really cheap option I found for unlimited storage at $5/mo called briefcasecloud.com. However, it is really primitive. Max individual file size of 2GB, no desktop app (only web), files can only be uploaded/downloaded one at a time (but is fast at doing so). I tried for a couple of days and it was tedious manually creating folders and adding files to them one by one. I think I'd go insane trying to upload my 150,000 MP3 music collection. But - if you have a bunch of movies and TV saved under 2GB per file - it can be a good place to stash a ton of data. You can play videos from the web - so good way to store a collection if you plan on watching from your PC. Not a great option - but one that might at least help some folks.
Question on Opendrive comment you made. You mention that they can't tell what is media and what isn't due to encryption. Is that encryption you put on it before upload, or is it because of encryption and/or zero knowledge provided by the service? I had about 150TB with Google, that I've since purged down to about 50TB to fit on HDs at home. But trying to find a good place to store my collection of music, movies, audiobooks, TV etc (not from torrents, but lots of PlayOn stream recordings). I would not want to subscribe to them only to get booted later and possibly lose more data. I'm not very tech savvy, so I don't know how to encrypt stuff myself. Simply looking for someplace to store a ton of files so I don't lose them if HD fails, and so I can watch/listen to the files when I want without worry over whether this or that streaming service has them when I want them. Like one giant TiVo...
Just found another "weak" but affordable option; Verizon has an unlimited cloud storage option of $13.99/mo for individual or $19.99/mo for 5 people to share (not a per user cost like Box or Sync). While mainly intended for phones, there is a desktop app too so you can upload stuff from PC too. It has both sync and storage, max individual file size is 10GB which is actually pretty good. They actually encourage video and music storage (but won't do some system type files) Their quota limits are a bit severe:
"Your total storage amount depends on your plan. For all plans, individual users can only upload up to 50 GB each day, using the Verizon Cloud desktop app after the initial backup completes.
If you:
- Reach the 50 GB limit, you can't upload additional files on that day using the Verizon Cloud desktop app.
- Exceed 500 GB in a month, your 50 GB daily limit will be reduced to 10 GB each day for the rest of the month.
The maximum individual file size you can upload through the Verizon Cloud desktop or mobile app is 10 GB. Most content won't be larger than 10 GB, but Blu-ray™ and 4K formatted videos may exceed this file size limit and won't be supported.
I don't know what they mean exactly by the "after initial backup" as that implies that the initial backup may not have any restrictions so your PC and its 1PB of attached NAS might count simply as an initial backup (or not). If you truly have to work with just the 50GB/day with 10GB/day if you hit the 500GB in a month, you'd be uploading slower than Box, or even Jottacloud. But unlike Box or Jottacloud, you can upload unlimited media without them being jerks about it.
I think most folks add less than 700GB/mo to their collections, so you should be able to at least still move stuff up faster than you produce stuff to upload. It would be slow, but theoretically an option for large data collections that would keep up to most folk's pace of growth.
Even If you are not tech savvy, i would suggest investing in a home solution rather then paying monthly for a cloud solution that can turn around at any moment force you to move again. In the long run a home solution will be a better investment.
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I agree that the high users did not break the unlimited plans, though we/they did still have possible factoring in the companies cutting such plans.
Several sites have quoted the "assumed 5TB/user" in their pricing. And, yes 150TB is well beyond that. But many folks also used only 100GB or less. The number of outliers may have been WAY above 5TB individually, but taken as a whole, spread across millions of users, the average used was likely more like 6TB.
But the companies, then have a quandry - do they raise the cost to assume an average of 6TB? They have two fears there...one, what happens if all the folks using small amounts start dropping off because the added costs are not worth it to them? two, what happens if the folks with the lower amounts decide to try to get more out of the higher cost by using the service more? Either way, that 6TB would grow as folks that find the cost too expensive drop off and others start using it more to get their money's worth. Basic death spiral.
It just sucks that there are not affordable options for folks with large amounts of non -business data (business folks can at least expense the cloud costs). Ironically, the offline alternatives are not much cheaper (and could be more expensive and/or higher risk). I looked into HDs, and recordable BL or DVD, and even tape drive storage. Seems like the cost works out about the same to cloud storage for large volumes...but you never really know whether those items will fail and not just for cost of replacement, but may lose the data entirely if you don't have duplicates (doubling costs).
I finally decided that it is not worth the $60+/mo cost to store my 150TB of media, given that I'm essentially paying as much as having several streaming services, just to store stuff I've either already watched or mostly won't ever get around to watching. So, I just purged all that I've watched already and am using HDs for the rest and deleting as I watch. I still save some money by using PlayOn, so that one month a year I can record a ton off some streamer and then cancel the streaming service and watch the shows over the rest of the year for free.
It still burns to not have a viable cloud option and I keep looking...but I think those services are gone until/unless a provider is willing to compromise and maybe subsidize the excess of their "anticipated use" with a much lower per GB or per TB than what the typical incremental providers charge (like $20/mo for 10TB and 50 cents/mo surcharge for each TB in excess of such). Or, give affordable "unlimited" lifetime plans .
Did you mean 100TB instead of 100GB for Fireload? They have 100TB for $36/mo which includes 3 users ($12/mo for each additional user). That would certainly be cheaper than Box/Sync and appears upload/download are not throttled/capped. It isn't unlimited...but at 100TB per account, it would still be cheaper doing 5 accounts to get 500TB than to get 150TB with AW3 Glacier. I think, even for the heavy users - most of us are under 100TB.
Has anyone tried them to see how the service is?