Yes, unfortunately. I had bought 3 in total, one totally unused still and all gone simultaneously. I hadn’t expected that tbh. I mean I always knew it wouldn’t last forever, but I thought I’d lose them one by one, not all at once.
With Rclone gone from Amazon that sure doesn’t leave many options open, I’m reluctant to open a genuine Gsuite account with the risk of losing Rclone on that as well, or worse, the entire account.
Also it would turn out to be more costly than we were prepared to spend, so for now, we’re going back to our server at home fulltime again until hopefully a solution presents itself.
Yes, unfortunately. I had bought 3 in total, one totally unused still and all gone simultaneously. I hadn’t expected that tbh. I mean I always knew it wouldn’t last forever, but I thought I’d lose them one by one, not all at once.
With Rclone gone from Amazon that sure doesn’t leave many options open, I’m reluctant to open a genuine Gsuite account with the risk of losing Rclone on that as well, or worse, the entire account.
Also it would turn out to be more costly than we were prepared to spend, so for now, we’re going back to our server at home fulltime again until hopefully a solution presents itself.
Yeahz I’m surprised too, everything fell off a cliff within a week.
ACD has been a pain in the butt ever since I started using it… Sure it’s cheaper, but all the tools I tried with it (rclone, ACD_cli, netdrive, stablebit, expandrive) had issues with it. Speed was always slower than Google drive.
I think any tool that encrypts or obfuscates your data will be fine e with Google, I’m more worried about them enforcing their 1tb limit…
As for price, 10$/month will always be cheaper than replacing dying drives if you have more than 3 or 4 large drives in your system…
I’m giving up, it’s too complicated, I go back to the traditional system, I canceled my VPS, canceled the renewal of Amazon Drive and bought a brand new Lacie 2big Thunderbolt2 16Tb!
@zuditechguy said:
How to get plexdrive to start up after rebot anyway can explain how the startup script works
This is kind of the blind leading the blind, but here is what worked for me. I found plexmediaserver.service in this folder
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants, I duplicated and renamed it to plexdrive.service and then blanked it out and put the following in it:
Of course your location of plexdrive.bin and folder your mounting to might be all different and I am not 100% sure if this is the most correct way to do this but it seems to be working fine. Linux Gurus please chime in.
I’m giving up, it’s too complicated, I go back to the traditional system, I canceled my VPS, canceled the renewal of Amazon Drive and bought a brand new Lacie 2big Thunderbolt2 16Tb!
When you start to exceed 16TB, you’ll begin to see why cloud storage is enticing.
@Qlogic said:
anyone figure out how to transfer from ACD to GD since the rclone ban? I don’t want to upload it all again
I use https://www.cloudhq.net and it seems to do the trick pretty well. Also (and this is perfect for me) it’s idiot-proof!!
$19.80/month (billed monthly $119.88 if billed annually) seems pretty expensive. I see they have a 15 day free trial so it would be a way to quickly rescue your files from ACD.
I was using ACD as my backup for Google Drive copying using rclone on a VPS from Bytesized with 1GB network & unlimited bandwidth which costs me €14.40/month but I use it for unraring & was going to set up SABnzbd for Usenet downloads.
@Qlogic said:
I signed up for cloudhq but it’s super slow
It is slow to do the initial scan but I find once it has that bit out of the way, any time I add anything to Google Drive it is almost immediately copied to ACD.
@zuditechguy said:
How to get plexdrive to start up after rebot anyway can explain how the startup script works
This is kind of the blind leading the blind, but here is what worked for me. I found plexmediaserver.service in this folder
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants, I duplicated and renamed it to plexdrive.service and then blanked it out and put the following in it:
Of course your location of plexdrive.bin and folder your mounting to might be all different and I am not 100% sure if this is the most correct way to do this but it seems to be working fine. Linux Gurus please chime in.
With Amazon disabling both Rclone and acd_cli (and pretty permanently it seems), I have gone ahead and updated the tutorial to include just one cloud service (Gsuite).
On the bright side, it’s now much easier to setup a VPS Here it is for the ones who don’t see my signature: Tech Perplexed
@per_PLEX_ed said:
With Amazon disabling both Rclone and acd_cli (and pretty permanently it seems), I have gone ahead and updated the tutorial to include just one cloud service (Gsuite).
On the bright side, it’s now much easier to setup a VPS Here it is for the ones who don’t see my signature: Tech Perplexed
It’s worth having a look at Plexdrive as an alternative for mounting. It’s a little more fiddly than rclone but I’ve had great results.
This is coming from someone who had to follow your guide to setup my VPS
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