Recently Canonical announced that it is shutting down the Ubuntu One service. I\
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Recently Canonical announced that it is shutting down the Ubuntu One service.
I'm looking for a cloud storage service/client pair that:
Has a Linux client (I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 if it matters).
Is free.
Service has online access to my files.
Service must provide at least 5 GB of free storage.
Bonus: Will run scheduled, automated, backups of my home folder and other folders I specify.
I'm interested in anything from a good Google Drive client to a whole new service. I also currently have OneDrive and Google Drive accounts.
Explanation / Answer
I'm pretty sure Copy meets all of your criteria:
Will run scheduled, automated, backups of my home folder and other folders I specify.
This one I'm not sure about. By default, the app creates a directory in your home folder and synchronizes it in near-realtime as changes are made. So you could obtain something similar to what you've described by having a cron job run locally on your computer and simply dump the files in the Copy directory.
Has a Linux client (I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 if it matters).
? Copy's desktop client is written in Qt and runs unmodified on Ubuntu.
Is free.
Service must provide at least 5 GB of free storage.
? Copy's free plan offers 15 GB of storage with the ability to earn more through a referral program.
Service has online access to my files.
? Copy provides access to your files through their website.
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