{"id":151,"date":"2010-10-31T18:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exorientelux.biz\/cgi-bin\/weblog_basic\/index.php?p=151"},"modified":"2010-10-31T18:13:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T16:13:40","slug":"in-quest-of-online-cloud-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"In Quest of Online \/ Cloud Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update 26th of December]
\nToday I found the solution, Use Dropbox without Gnome<\/a><\/strong>. Special thanks to the author of this post.<\/p>\n

The tool is trivial to install, very straight forward to use, just excellent. Here is a copy of the instructions:<\/p>\n

1. Download the closed source Dropbox Linux client from http:\/\/www.getdropbox.com\/download?plat=lnx.x86 (x86_64 for 64 bit)
\n2. Extract the contents and you should get a .dropbox-dist folder out of the archive. Move the folder to $HOME
\n3. Run ~\/.dropbox-dist\/dropboxd.<\/p>\n

In the meantime I got SuSe+WebDav+Dolphin working for MyDrive.ch. Only rather small files are supported, though. I didn““““t figure out what“s the exact size\/limit, mostly since I prefer a truly „public“ folder and MyDrive.ch supports only a „guest user“ (you need to share this login).<\/p>\n

[Initial post, 31st of October]
\nMy web hoster asks for more money for better service. Fine, business as usual. <\/p>\n

But I just don““t need a whole bundle of services. What I need is more online storage. These are the results of some web research<\/p>\n

A few requirements
\n1 – Public accessible folder
\n2 – WebDav, FTP, or whatever tool for convenient access (upload) from Linux (KDE, Suse)
\n3 – 1GB+ storage
\n4 – Free<\/p>\n

Dropbox<\/a><\/strong>
\nOK: 1, 3, 4, Partially ok – 2 (requires Nautilus File Manager but I perfer Dolphin, which has native WebDav and split-view support), Popular service based on Amazon AWS<\/p>\n

Google Docs<\/strong>
\nOK: 1, 3, 4, Not OK: 2, Well-known integrated services, only one GB free<\/p>\n

Gmail Drive<\/strong>
\nOK: 3, 4, Not OK: 1, 2, Well-known integrated services, no public access though and subject to all the mail analysis by Google (guess that““s the same for Google Docs)<\/p>\n

Box Net<\/a><\/strong>
\nOK: 1, 3, 4, Not OK: 2, Online storage pioneer<\/p>\n

MyDrive<\/a><\/strong>
\nOK: 2, 3, 4, Not OK: 1, Nice Swiss-native service<\/p>\n

SMEStorage<\/a><\/strong>
\nOK: 1, 4 Not OK: 2, 3, No closer look as storage tiny<\/p>\n

MS SkyDrive<\/strong>
\nOK: 1, 3, 4 Partially OK: 2, Cryptic configuration under Linux, requires a MS-compatible tool to extract WebDav addresses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Update 26th of December] Today I found the solution, Use Dropbox without Gnome. Special thanks to the author of this post. The tool is trivial to install, very straight forward to use, just excellent. Here is a copy of the instructions: 1. Download the closed source Dropbox Linux client from http:\/\/www.getdropbox.com\/download?plat=lnx.x86 (x86_64 for 64 bit) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}