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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Looking for 'unlimited' cloud backup: Jottacloud or OpenDrive? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a cloud backup service that allows me to upload daily backups from my macbook and home Linux server automatically without having to worry about storage limits.

Of course I understand 'unlimited' is never actually unlimited, in my use case I guess I'll typically stay below 10-15 TB for many years to come.

After comparing many alternatives it boils down to OpenDrive or Jottacloud for me. I have tried free trial accounts with both, and they both seem to work OK for my needs. Also the cost is about the same. I don't care about encryption, all my uploaded archives are encrypted client side anyway.

Also I don't need fancy client or backup software, I upload from CLI only (using rclone).

Any user experiences that would recommend either of these, or favor one over the other?

Any insight is much appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no more unlimited. Jottacloud openly throttle you (probably you could do 10-20TBs eventually given enough time, but not considerably more) and I think OpenDrive finds reasons to kick you out around 10TBs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of course I realize that neither are really unlimited. But like I said 10-15 TB should be more than enough. I actually don't expect to cross the 10 TB mark any time soon (definitely not within the next few years).

I noticed about Jottacloud's speed throttling, that actually doesn't seem too problematic for my case. As for OpenDrive, do they actually kick people out that have like 10 TB stored? (which I won't have initially, but may get there eventually).