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Cloud Storage with smart/on-demand sync Linux client? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like OneDrive for Windows or iCloud on MacOS. So files only her downloaded when needed and you can specify directories/files to be available offline.

Needs to integrate into nautilus context menu with the option to get a shareable link through that. Though I'm open to switching my file manager. Nextcloud can do it but the feature is experimental and every time I restart it just syncs everything again.

Gnome online accounts doesn't let you specify folders to be available offline. Onedriver is the same and I'd like to stop paying MS money. Plus neither integrate into nautilus' context menu.

It's the one thing I really miss from win 11. Basically all folders I worked were synced and for a secondary backup I synced OneDrive to a NAS. My Cloud Storage is bigger than the available space on my machine. I could do insync with selective sync, it nautilus integration as well. But that's just not as elegant as smart/on demand sync, having everything available in your file manager when you need it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think they store the data about the files in a database, but the files are in a folder structure.

Doesn't make sense to have data that could be a few gigabytes in a database, or maybe that's just me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not just you. It didn't make sense to me either, which is why it struck me as odd, and why I kept a separate backup. This was a long while ago, so things, it seems, have changed (unsurprisingly with NC, for the better).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Next cloud has never stored the files themselves in a db. I've been using it since before it existed (own cloud) and then switched, it always has had a flat file storage that you can just backup and browse without the metadata from the database if you want.

Unfortunately that's also part of it's Achilles heel and why it's so slow, it's not optimized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe it was the lack of metadata? I'm not sure, it's been a while since I used it last. I'll try to spin it up again and see how it does for my usecase now. I really only used it for file storage.