I tried rclone once because I wanted to sync a single folder from documents and freaked out when it looked like it was going to purge all documents except for my targeted folder.
Then I just did it via the portal…
calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Tangentially, I don’t see people talk about rclone a lot, which is like rsync for cloud storage.
It’s awesome for moving things from one provider to another, for example.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
rsync can sometimes look similarly scary! I very clearly remember triple-checking what it’s doing.
rclone works amazingly well if you have hundreds of folders or thousands of files and you can’t be bothered to babysit a portal.
Eldritch@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
It's fine. But yes in the Linux space. We tend to want to host ourselves. Not have to trust some administrator of some cloud we don't know/trust.
TehNomad@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
rclone does support other protocols besides S3. You can also selfhost your own S3 storage.
calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Eldritch@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
I mention in the Linux space only because it's what I'm familiar with and didn't want to make assumptions about groups I'm not familiar with. Unlike you who's looking for a way to take umbridge and talk passed people. I went to college for IT and have done it for 30 years.
In network and IT planning. The cloud is the wider network outside your own. That you don't have mapped. Often depicted by a "cloud". If I have a personal data pool on one of my own networks. And need it from another. It may transmit via the "cloud". But it isn't IN the cloud. It's on a personal server. If the server is in your house, and you can point exactly to where your data is. Then the rule of thumb is that it is in your house. Not the cloud. If it's hosted on a system you couldn't directly point to on a network you have no knowledge of. Especially a shared system. Then things literally and figuratively are getting cloudier.
That said, marketing as it often does. Appropriates and misuses words based around buzz. And I am not about to admonish hobbyist who use it in the marketing sense. I understand, I get it.
If you host in OSX on Apple Silicon, that's great. If you host on a 68k Mac or Amiga you're a fucking mad lad! If you're hosting under Windows, any TCP port in the storm mate. If you are hosting from a Linux distribution that is not God's chosen, cool how is it working out? If you are hosting from BeOS. or Haiku, you are a glorious oddball and absolutely my sort of person. And if you are hosting from an appliance that you really don't know what it's running, welcome to the hobby. It's a good starting point. And a lill data in the cloud isn't a crime. We all have some. But if you can't easily point to it. Can you really know you have it?
calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
I’m not reading all that. Sorry about that, or I’m happy for you. Whichever you prefer.