"Unlimited" alternatives to Google Drive, what are the options?

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Its not the greatest deal of the century, but I was on Google Drive for 13 years. If they had a similar model, I would have excess storage now. Anyway, I chatted with their customer service. Once you purchase a server, you have the option to add as much storage as you want, for an extra fee. I did not ask pricing, only if it was possible. So, in reality, you can purchase the server, then upgrade the intial amount of storage you want for a one time price, then get your daily gb added. I only put this out there, as this is kind of a unique offer. If you dont like it, you dont have to hack the comment up to make it look terrible. For some people, these plans would work fine with, if your complaining about "only getting 2TB/year, well, your mind is stuck on "BUT I WANNA PAY $20/MO AND HAVE INFINITE STORAGE, WAHHHHH :sob:"

That reality doesnt exist anymore. This is simply another option for people. If it doesnt fit your needs, it does NOT mean it wouldn't work great for others.

Edit: I never said it was a great deal, simply said, look what I found.

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1514

Agree.

I did not refer to you with my criticisms of their pricing structure. Myself I just do not like complicated pricing models which usually after closer inspection simply hide how expensive they are overall. (it applies to BIG players too - AWS Glacier storage is perfect example).

And yes always there is some very specific use case when they are real good win. But only in such special case which is rare.

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1515

How about colo hosting for your own server? Obviously the cheapest would be to just swap servers with a friend, but what is the cheapest colo offer for say a 3 unit rack mount server? Then you can just pay for your own storage and upgrade it as needed.

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1516

Everybody has to do own maths here. There is no clear cut really. All depends:) But indeed nowadays this option can be attractive to many

1517

I understand what your saying :+1:

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1518

Look for posts earlier in this thread, one of us has announced it here, and even started a separate thread with his/her findings on that particular.

1519

I've got about 9TB at Jottacloud, am in at least my third year there and have no real complaints. I'm sure with that amount of data I'm throttled, but I haven't found that to be a real issue. That may be because I just do everything with scripts running in the background. Am I missing something awful that they're doing?

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If it works for you then use it:) Myself only problem with jottacloud I worry about there are reports of randomly corrupted files. Otherwise it is fair pricing and very upfront policies.

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1521

I know we're on the rclone forum but I'm thinking of signing up for jottacloud just because it's a good deal just for photos storage itself.
My question is, does it support rclone?

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Yes. The only issue I've ever had is that after something like two years I had to generate a new token. Other than that, it's been very reliable.

1523

I have been using Jottacloud for a few years without issue. I do a periodic full download and verify using Duplicati with rclone.

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Thanks man for the info!

I've got a months subscription to trial it out before getting a year subscription.

I see you mentioned that you have scripts running in the background, can you explain what they are as?

My main use case is to eventually replace Google Photos / Drive since jottacloud storage offering is unparalleled.

However the biggest question is the speed throttling and see if it's going to be a hindrance going past 5tb.

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It is clearly documented so you can decide if acceptable in your specific use case:

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1526

All my automated stuff is on various Linux boxes and I have multiple sets of files that get backed up both locally and to Jottacloud.

So I have a shell script called Generic_Jotta.sh that sets up timestamped log files, builds the rclone command to perform backup and emails the log to me. Then another script called Master_rclone.sh submits a series of calls to Generic_Jotta.sh, passing the source/backup directories and, optionally, whether or not that particular run should be a live backup or a dry run, e.g.:

Generic_Jotta.sh SourceDir jottacrypt:RemoteDir $1

If no parameter is supplied for $1 or the supplied parameter is anything other than "nodryrun", the job becomes a --dry-run. If the parameter is "nodryrun", then a live backup is performed.

I have a dry run scheduled several times during the day and check the emails it creates to see if I need to perform a live backup. I don't like to perform live backups automatically as it increases the risk of losing backed up data if something goes wrong with the source when I'm not paying attention.

1527

Thanks for the detailed info. My main use case is to replace Google photos and rclone backup for my important documents etc so this probably doesn't apply to me.

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1528

If anyone is looking for a reference:

[blomp-swift]
type = swift
user = email
key = pass
auth = https://authenticate.ain.net
tenant = storage
auth_version = 2
endpoint_type = public
leave_parts_on_error = true
chunk_size = 1P
no_chunk = false

[blomp-alias]
type = alias
remote = blomp-swift:email

[blomp-chunker]
type = chunker
remote = blomp-alias:
chunk_size = 5242879K
name_format = *.#####
start_from = 1
hash_type = md5
meta_format = simplejson
fail_hard = false
transactions = norename

[blomp-gzip]
type = compress
remote = blomp-chunker:
level = 9

[blomp-crypt]
type = crypt
remote = blomp-gzip:
filename_encryption = standard
directory_name_encryption = true
password = <hashed encrypted pass 1>
password2 = <hashed encrypted pass 2>
no_data_encryption = false

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I, by the way, find the BLOMP to look relatively cheap and as far as I can tell from the 20GB demo account it is also considerably fast.

I read the company behind this OpenStack Swift provider is Ai.Net. Is that a trustworthy company? I don't mind paying more, but I do mind to have to move all my data AGAIN. And loosing it would be an even bigger issue. But they seem legit and as they are contributing to rclone I assume based on their price model it is sustainable for the long time.

Their website / backend looks somewhat bad and lacks features which makes me somewhat sceptical.

They have a limo so I guess that's money well spent xD

1530

I see Blomp offers a top plan of 10TB. Is there a way to upgrade beyond that, once purchased?

Or would you need several accounts in a union?

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These are the paid options once you create an account?

Thanks