I’m brand new to Linux, running Mint on an old laptop to get a few more years out of it. I can install things via CLI, but I prefer GUI if available.

I’m looking for a cloud syncing option for some files I want to access across multiple devices. I don’t need a lot of space. I’m not skilled enough to host things somewhere myself, I want just a consumer cloud solution.

I have a Box account, but there’s not a native Box sync app for Linux. I’ve seen ExpanDrive claims to offer Box syncing, but I’m hesitant to pay or give it access to my account without knowing more about it. If it truly works and is secure, I don’t mind paying.

Otherwise, what have been your best experiences with cloud hosting and syncing on Linux?

Thanks everyone! I’ve been having a lot of fun with my little Linux machine, I’m just bummed I didn’t try this sooner.

    • lemmy_user_838586
      9·
      10 months ago

      +1 for Syncthing, I use it a lot. However anyone have any methods of 1-way sync? I’d like to backup camera photos from my phone with it but not have a 2-way sync so I can delete the pictures off my phone, and not have it deleted on my server. At one point I found a discussion with the developers about this exact use case and if I remember right, they were kind or in the camp of ‘that use case extends beyond what we envision for the app and would introduce more complexities, so we’re not a big fan of introducing that feature.’

      • superbirra@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 months ago

        it’s not 2-way vs 1-way sync (also, ppl who replied didn’t read your requirements lol), it’s that you want to ignore deletes, which is not possible.

        • LoveSausage
          13·
          10 months ago

          True but you could set up a schedule /cronjob to move the files from the shared folder perhaps. Would be a bit extra traffic I guess if pics are not deleted on main device regularly.

          • superbirra@lemmy.world
            21·
            10 months ago

            are you sure you would this something like that on your devices? Because I’m not sure if you reasoned enough about that monstruosity you randomly propose here :D

              • superbirra@lemmy.world
                11·
                10 months ago

                don’t worry, in time you will learn to think about the consequences of the solutions you now think are resolutive 😉

                • LoveSausage
                  16·
                  10 months ago

                  Funny guy ain’t ya? Small dick energy all over

  • electric_nan
    12·
    10 months ago

    Rclone. You can set it up to work with most/all commercial cloud storage providers. Basically a little bit of configuring in the terminal, and you get the storage mounted like a network drive. You can even add in a layer of encryption. For awhile I had my media server using google drive this way as storage for like 10TB of TV/movies!

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    Other people have mentioned open source products so I’ll just add that Dropbox has a Linux client. I use Nextcloud for my own stuff but I have Dropbox for work stuff and it works basically the same as on Windows/Mac as far as I can tell.

  • AzureCeruleanEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    hwittenborn/celeste: Celeste is a GUI file synchronization client that can connect to virtually any cloud provider.

    Backed by rclone, giving you a reliable and battle-tested way to sync your files anywhere Written with GTK4 and Libadwaita, giving Celeste a native look and feel on your desktop Written in Rust, making Celeste blazingly fast to use

    https://github.com/hwittenborn/celeste

  • sighofannoyance@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 months ago

    Nextcloud is really great for this. There is clients for all desktop and mobile OS. I am hosting this myself on my VPS however you can however use this service here: https://nextcloud.com/sign-up/

    their website says they host it for you and provides this list of providers…

  • jan teli@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    There’s commercial nextcloud providers and dropbox has a linux app. You could also do something syncthing or sftp. Google drive can integrate faily well with gnome, idk about cinammon tho.

  • Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    If all the devices are going to be on the same network most of the time you could go with Syncthing. It’s pretty simple to set up syncing folders between multiple devices.

  • makingStuffForFun
    2·
    10 months ago

    I use syncthing with my home server to synch about 11 devices. It’s flawless.

  • Lupec@lemm.ee
    1·
    10 months ago

    Others have brought up open source solutions already so on a different note I’ll say I’ve used the (closed source and paid) Insync client successfully in the past, and it worked fine. An interesting bonus is you can have it on both Windows and Linux pointing to the same set of files if you dual boot and it’s supposed to work just fine.