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        <title>Goodbye Amazon Drive - Dec 2023</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>vyas</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Dear Amazon Drive Customer,</p>

<p>Over the last 11 years, Amazon Drive has served as a secure cloud storage service for Amazon customers to back up their files. On December 31, 2023, we will no longer support Amazon Drive to more fully focus our efforts on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos. We will continue to provide customers the ability to safely back up, share, and organize photos and videos with Amazon Photos.</p>
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        <title>Plex, rclone mounts and bandwidth usage</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>flips</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>I've been having some fun lately, setting up Plex on a new VPS, mounting my music share using <code>rclone mount</code>.</p>

<p>I've been using the same setup previously, on a slower node, but with only outbound bandwidth measured. There I mounted my music from pCloud.</p>

<p>On this new node I figured I would try out/use <a href="https://staging.lowendspirit.com/index.php?p=/profile/koofr" rel="nofollow">@koofr</a>. So I mounted the drive, using</p>

<pre><code>/usr/bin/rclone mount --uid 1000 --gid 1000 --syslog --stats 1m \
  -v --allow-other --read-only  myKoofr:/music/ /srv/music/
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<p>I installed plexmediaserver and added 149 GB of music to the library, from that Koofr-rclone mount.<br />
That triggered Plex to download ~900 GB of data ...<br />
(Actually jumped in at ~600 and tried figuring out what's going on. By then it was halvway through indexing/scanning the library. <a href="https://staging.lowendspirit.com/index.php?p=/profile/AnthonySmith" rel="nofollow">@AnthonySmith</a> suggested I could try to add <code>--ignore-checksum</code>, so I did. This might have helped, as it "only" used 300 GB for scanning the last 150 GB.</p>

<p>I also tried pCloud, and I tried adding some more options for caching, using something like this:</p>

<pre><code>/usr/bin/rclone mount --uid 1000 --gid 1000 --syslog --stats 1m \
  --buffer-size 1G --no-modtime --dir-cache-time 90m \
  --cache-dir /tmp/rclone-cache --vfs-cache-mode full \
  --vfs-cache-max-size 1G \
  -v --allow-other --read-only --ignore-checksum \
  my-pcloud:/music/ /srv/music/
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<p>Still a rescan of my library used <strong>150 GB</strong> of traffic. Maybe <code>--no-modtime</code> prevents it from seeing ctime/mtime, so it <em>has</em> to re-download every file to check ... D'oh!  <img src="https://staging.lowendspirit.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/twitter/open_mouth.png" title=":o" alt=":o" height="18" />  <img src="https://staging.lowendspirit.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/twitter/confounded.png" title=":s" alt=":s" height="18" />  <img src="https://staging.lowendspirit.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/twitter/tongue.png" title=":p" alt=":p" height="18" /></p>

<p>Trying again, a <em>Scan Library Files</em> after removing that option, with only 3 albums (re)added, it seems that still triggered a full re-download ... (Actually waiting for it to finish, but looks like it's downloading a lot.) I would think Plex stored in it's db the timestamps etc, so it wouldn't have to redownload everything every time. <img src="https://staging.lowendspirit.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/twitter/astonished.png" title=":astonished:" alt=":astonished:" height="18" /></p>

<p>I've seen recommendations on using sshfs instead, but this makes me curious ... I could of course try davs/dav2s (the cloud providers don't offer ssh, I think). But users like <a href="https://staging.lowendspirit.com/index.php?p=/profile/Mason" rel="nofollow">@Mason</a> and <a href="https://staging.lowendspirit.com/index.php?p=/profile/Wolveix" rel="nofollow">@Wolveix</a> do run rclone (albeit with GSuite, IIRC), so it should be feasible.<br />
If nightly rescan triggers redownload of every file, it's really not very nice ... Not a vital service for me, of course, but it triggers my curiosity. <img src="https://staging.lowendspirit.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/twitter/smile.png" title=":)" alt=":)" height="18" /></p>

<p>Maybe I'm missing something obvious, or maybe you have some insight to share on this? <img src="https://staging.lowendspirit.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/twitter/smile.png" title=":)" alt=":)" height="18" /></p>
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        <title>Astian Cloud 25 GB Gratis / Donationware</title>
        <link>https://staging.lowendspirit.com/index.php?p=/discussion/1050/astian-cloud-25-gb-gratis-donationware</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 05:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Must See Deals</category>
        <dc:creator>vyas</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>If the title confuses you, don't worry. The deal is simple<br />
Folks from the Midori web browser project have an offer for Astian Cloud- (Nextcloud) - 25 GB free.  First 200 registrants get 50 GB i.e. 2x storage.<br />
You can read about the offer and find the link here:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.midori-browser.org/2020/04/08/midori-astian-cloud-storage-collaborative-meeting-browsing/" rel="nofollow">https://www.midori-browser.org/2020/04/08/midori-astian-cloud-storage-collaborative-meeting-browsing/</a></p>

<p>Notes:<br />
a. Service is free, but donations by the Midori project appreciated ! Therefore I used the term 'donationware' in the title.<br />
b. Collabora, Video conferencing included.<br />
c. Like in previous cases, I am posting the link to the blog post from where you can find the registration link.</p>
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