I personally use pCloud. They advertise a service located in the US, but
they also offer at the same price to have the storage in the EU, which
is my option. They also offer a fully-supported software that will mount
your storage on a Linux client. The mount is using fuse type. It worked
flawlessly for me.
JFM
On 2025-04-22 18:02, Nash JC - NCF via linux wrote:
I've been using a VPS that uOttawa lets me have as retired/Adjunct
prof. However, it's
likely to disappear soon, as IT has been outsourced (given away!) to
Micro$oft. I keep
getting notices that I should use Outlook for my email. When Micro$oft
board chooses
to get their carbon and nitrogen for protein from KCN I might do so,
but not until.
For the last year or so, I've been exploring how I might use cloud
storage for my needs.
Of course, I'm aiming to avoid servers in the USA.
Unfortunately, my biggest storage user is my book writing, for which I
currently use
Subversion over SSH on the VPS. Essentially I'd like to avoid actually
managing a
server. The storage needs are in the 60GB zone due to lots of
background material.
One possibility is using mounted cloud storage and file:// access for
the Subversion.
BUT ...
I discovered that there are glitches with permissions. The idea works
nicely with
pCloud, but not with Icedrive. Git gives similar issues. I also tried
curlftpfs
with the NCF web space, but got problems with file ownership.
I've not tried Stormweb or Proton or .... And I've not explored what
might be
possible in partnering with someone else.
Has anyone in the group tried using cloud storage in such ways? It
would be useful
to compare notes.
I might also like to encrypt some stuff -- I do screen prints of some
material that
has factual tid-bits for my work on historical novels, and don't want
to get into
arguments over fair dealing. There have been a number of complaints
about pCloud
closing accounts (and keeping the money!) because they got a hash
positive for
supposedly copyright material. This also means they are scanning
material. Sigh.
That would mean local encryption before upload of the sensitive
material, which
is a pain, but not impossible, as the background material isn't
accessed often.
In fact, I keep a small svn repo for some personal docs so I can get
at them when
travelling.
I've been documenting this investigation, and probably can share the
write-up at
some point.
Ideas welcome.
John Nash
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