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PostPosted: 15:32 - 16 Sep 2019    Post subject: Cloud Storage Services Reply with quote
I was going to tag this onto the NAS thread but it seemed a bit of a tangent....

Anyhoo, slightly disappointed that I've got a new Samsung phone and they no longer throw in 100GB of free OneDrive any more Sad

I don't really want to throw money at OneDrive if I have to so I'm weighing up OneDrive/GoogleDrive/Dropbox/etc. (i.e. paid services) versus self-service - raw AWS space, local OwnCloud/NextCloud.

I only need it to auto-upload my photos so I can grab them from a PC.

OwnCloud or NextCloud might be the cheapest but they only seem to play nice with Linux these days. I could go down the Docker route I suppose...
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PostPosted: 16:52 - 16 Sep 2019    Post subject: Re: Cloud Storage Services Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
OwnCloud or NextCloud might be the cheapest but they only seem to play nice with Linux these days.


Is that a recent 'feature'? ... when I used to work with lots of Linux VM servers, OwnCloud was my tool of choice as it worked nicely with Linux, Windows and Android.
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PostPosted: 18:15 - 16 Sep 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Azure blob and AWS are dirt cheap for storage, just remember ingress is free, but egress is charged for.

An Office 365 E1 license is about £6 a month and gives you 1TB of storage for SharePoint / OneDrive as well as a host of other services. You can usually find discount codes as well to get it down to about £4.

Don’t know how much the others you mention are.
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PostPosted: 18:15 - 16 Sep 2019    Post subject: Re: Cloud Storage Services Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:


OwnCloud or NextCloud might be the cheapest but they only seem to play nice with Linux these days. I could go down the Docker route I suppose...


Really, works well with Andoid, Linux, and even a Windows machine I help look after, can't say I've come across any problems.

Not too sure how you view docker as a cloud storage platform? Unless you mean, run owncloud via docker instance. Of course, there is still the dropbox option, but, I moved away from dropbox, for, fairly obvious reasons..
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PostPosted: 23:53 - 16 Sep 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
owl wrote:
Azure blob and AWS are dirt cheap for storage, just remember ingress is free, but egress is charged for.


Good point, might be a good idea for a final destination; port of last resort sort of thing.

As for Office 365 I already have an account provided by my office but I'm not going to clog up my works account with pr0n personal stuff Smile

Regarding OwnCloud/NextCloud they have clients for all platforms but the server only runs on Linux or as a Docker instance. OwnCloud used to work on Windows servers but apparently they stopped supporting that a while back and NextCloud has no Windows server support at all.

Hmm... my current home server is a little Mini-ITX thing running Windows and it's been very reliable running Serviio, etc. I have been meaning to upgrade it to a later i5 CPU and motherboard that I salvaged from a job a while back. I suppose I could convert it to an ESXi server at the same time and just run Windows and Linux as instances.
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PostPosted: 07:22 - 17 Sep 2019    Post subject: Re: Cloud Storage Services Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
II only need it to auto-upload my photos so I can grab them from a PC.


Google photos is free and unlimited for photos up to 16mp and 1080p video

https://www.google.com/photos/about/
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PostPosted: 10:49 - 17 Sep 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:

Regarding OwnCloud/NextCloud they have clients for all platforms but the server only runs on Linux or as a Docker instance.


Oh yeah, very good point. We used a Linux VM as our OC server.
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PostPosted: 14:49 - 17 Sep 2019    Post subject: Re: Cloud Storage Services Reply with quote
duhawkz wrote:
Easy-X wrote:
II only need it to auto-upload my photos so I can grab them from a PC.


Google photos is free and unlimited for photos up to 16mp and 1080p video

https://www.google.com/photos/about/


Hahaha! I work in IT, how come I don't know this shit Rolling Eyes

I think I could probably get away with Google Photos + manual backups to AWS for everything else. This looks just the job: https://s3browser.com/ I'd rather sync stuff manually anyway.

Once everything's backed up then I might rebuild my server Smile
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PostPosted: 15:33 - 17 Sep 2019    Post subject: Re: Cloud Storage Services Reply with quote
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Hahaha! I work in IT, how come I don't know this shit Rolling Eyes


you would not be the first person to work in IT who doesn't know shit about IT.

it seems that IT management roles are full of them.
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PostPosted: 17:27 - 17 Sep 2019    Post subject: Re: Cloud Storage Services Reply with quote
ColinK98 wrote:
Easy-X wrote:


Hahaha! I work in IT, how come I don't know this shit Rolling Eyes


you would not be the first person to work in IT who doesn't know shit about IT.

it seems that IT management roles are full of them.


https://media.giphy.com/media/DUtVdGeIU8lmo/giphy.gif

All you need Wink
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PostPosted: 21:21 - 18 Sep 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well I needn't have panicked: while OneDrive is bleating over the cloud storage dropping back to 5GB I discovered Samsung were also backing up all the photo's to their own storage... up to 15GB for free (probably why they dropped the OneDrive offer.)

Anyway, Google Photos is easy enough so I've set it the task of backing up all my photos - just shy of 10,000 Shocked

I think I might head over to the NAS thread and reconsider my current setup.
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