Tag: amazon

(Updated) Syncing your Data: cloudhq.net

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The Situation

After last weeks Amazons ban of rclone and acd_cli it was nigh impossible to access and sync your data reliable with pretty much anything. Sure, Amazon offers a free Windows client but that a) works only in Windows and b) does not make the drive available as a local drive. Plus rclone allows syncing of two clouds making them a de facto Raid1. It worked very well and due to the fact that it was scriptable you could fire-and-forget it. I never had any reason to look the other side.

Until now. I still don’t.

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Amazon Clouddrive, Encfs and Rsync – Part II

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Welcome Back!

So now that you set up your own syncmachine that will push all your data encrypted to your Amazon Clouddrive, it’s time to up the ante. A quick recap: At this point you can mount and decrypt your Drive into a local folder and read files with ‘ok’ speeds. Writing actually takes ages because if you copy/move a file into your clouddrive decrypted folder the whole process of encrypting and uploading takes place. This is annoying for large files and some programs have serious problems with that.

So if you are a CouchPotato like me, that has some issues coming up on your Sonarr, err, Radar you want those issues to be gone. So like magic you raise your wand and begin to cast the “Abra-ca sabnzbd” spell.

– Anonymous post on usenet.

If that sentence made no sense to you, well no worries. Here is an analogy:

  1. You download you favorite Linux ISO with your favorite command line tool.
  2. You save said ISO in a temporary folder somewhere.
  3. You wrote or got a neat program that scans and sorts your temp folder into your CloudDrive.
  4. The program starts a copy/move from the temporary directory into the Clouddrive.
  5. Encfs and acd_cli start working on encrypting and uploading.
  6. Before the copy/move command completes your tool throws a timeout.
  7. Nothing happened.

Also if you share your CloudDrive folder with Samba it is annoying to transfer several GB worth of data. The wait kills at least me. I don’t like to wait.

Let’s fix all that. Now.

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Amazon Clouddrive, Encfs and Rsync

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Cloudy, with a chance of Unlimitness.

Amazon.$tld just released an unlimited Storage Tier for non-commercial applications for ~70 Bucks a year (depending on your location). And they are not kidding. Not only does the Web-Interface say ‘x used of unlimited’ but once mounted you’ll notice 100TB Quota. And reports on github actually state people reached that limit and even increased that by contacting support. So, plenty of space for your ‘documents’.

In its most basic form you can manage, down- and upload your files via the web-interface. That’s nice for on-the-go, but we are talking serious data here. So we need a client. Amazon offers the usual stuff: Windows Client, OSX Client. No Linux? Don’t be sad. Those clients can’t even do a real ‘sync’. Plus so far all clients upload your files unencrypted. Of course amazon goes ad-fishing with buzzwords from the ‘secure’-department… But they do have a list of compatible file types available. This is just for the web-client that it can index and play media; but this also means they are scanning your files (even if only automatically).

Err, no thanks.

What we want is the ability to mount the CloudDrive in Linux and encrypt everything before uploading.
Let’s get cracking.

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