What is the crowd's opinion of pCloud?

From 3.5 billion comments

No issue, you can use:

https://push.boox.com/

and send the book from there, and will show in your device automatically (regardless the O.S.)
or you can use Android File transfer for Mac and connect directly using USB and manage all the files (copy/paste will do the job)

Or any other service, I use pcloud.com for example to store all my books, so I just download from there.

STORJ might be a real contestant, once it gets ready™. Decentralised encrypted cloud storage for $0.015 per GB per month, and $0.05 per GB transfer. I’m super curious about this one.

Currently I’m using Pcloud. It is Swiss, privacy focused alternative to dropbox — You can make 20GB for free in referrals, and they offer 2TB for 350€ for LIFE. Here is refferal sign up link if you want to 1GB more to start with, or you can just go to pcloud.com. Granted, it is not opensource.

Hello,

I would recommend pCloud (https://pcloud.com) Its a cloud storage that does not take space on your PC like other clouds. You can sync folders you want to backup and they will automatically upload any changes without you having to do nothing.

Also they have pCloud Crypto (https://pcloud.com/crypto) that uses client side encryption. What this means is they encrypt the files on your device and send only the encrypted files to their servers. Meaning even they dont know what your files are. You access them with a password you create to decrypt the folder again on your device.

Also they up to 20GB of free cloud storage so yeah.

Good luck!

Also, if you go with free cloud storage make sure to log in every so often or they'll delete your account.

Another option is to pay for cloud storage, many have lifetime plans like icedrive.net or pcloud.com. Paid accounts don't get deleted for inactivity (usually).

Your first problem here is if your computer or hard drives starts failing, you lose your data. There are cloud storage services out there that offers encryption, multifactor authentication and multi device syncing. pcloud.com storage offers those services, there could be better services out there, check the reviews if you want something better. Having a cloud storage account that uses multi factor authentication and encryption is a good security. Next, have all your drives encrypted in case of theft, they wouldn't be able to access your data. Then, you can setup to sync your files from your encrypted drives to your cloud storage so that you have multiple backups... onsite, offsite, and cloud. Now, you wouldn't have a need to VPN if you just need to access your files as they are always synced in the cloud. Now that you have redundant backups and encryption, invest in a good network firewall. Netgate which uses pfSense have affordable firewalls that has scalable and highly configurable software. But if you're not running any web services, then the out of the box firewall configuration of Netgate should be good enough for the time being.

pCloud tends to be highly recommended.

They have 500 GB and 2 TB (2,000 GB) options.
You can pay monthly, annually, or you can pay a one-time fee for a "Lifetime" subscription.

• On the Lifetime subscription, they tend to run 2–3 promos/year on it (on dates like 4th of July, Black Friday, New Year's, etc) and it's usually for their 2 TB option, making it just $245.
  • this means that for it to pay for itself you just need to figure if you'll have it for at least 2 1/2 years. After that, in a way, they're paying you back every year through $$$ you're no longer paying out to a cloud provider.

They seem to always have the features people are looking for on here, and in one place.

I second the recommendation for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows.

I think you had a good idea to copy everything from the old drive to the new drive so that the new drive is for your original data. You can drag and drop folders from the old drive to the new one. It may take awhile. Check to make sure everything made it and then delete everything on the old drive.

Since you have some backup files currently on your old USB drive and will have copied them to the new drive, you could delete them from the new drive, once your Veeam Agent backup has protected the original files on your PC's internal drive (unless some of the backup have value for historical purposes, containing files that are no longer on your internal drive).

Configure Veeam Agent to run an image backup each night.

When you get your third drive, Veeam Agent has a slick feature that lets you "register" both backup drives. Then on a regular basis, you can disconnect the main backup drive and connect the offsite backup drive. Veeam Agent is smart enough to back up to the offsite drive, catching up on everything. Next, disconnect the offsite drive, reconnect the main backup drive, and take the offsite drive offsite.

Since nothing is perfect, you might also consider a cloud backup. If $5 per month for BackBlaze is too much, you could back up your most important 10 GB of files for free to a service such as pCloud.com or icedrive.net making sure you encrypt them, perhaps using 7-zip.

I found a post about a very similar situation what I experienced.

You should read this.

pCloud.com seems to be aware of this problem, but has no intention of fixing it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rclone/comments/j987pj/push_files_directly_into_crypto_folder_of_pcloud/

+1 for <strong>pCloud</strong>.
(bonus: they happen to be running a <strong><em>promo</em></strong> right now, 75% OFF Lifetime offering; them running a promo though has nothing to do with my recommendation, I'd rec. them anyway)

iDrive is more of a pure backup solution – where pCloud is definitely more fully featured (and seems to ~always have the solution for what people are looking for on here).

I know you probably would want to try it out first, but as mentioned pCloud is also running one of their few promos of the year right now: 75% OFF their Lifetime Offer (both their 2 TB and their 500 GB option). They tend to run a promo like this from 1-3x a year (1-2x being the most common). It's basically another $100 off right now on the 2 TB option (their normal price is 65% off, ie. $350 – yes, I don't know why they call their 'normal' price 65% off, lol).

You can easily share your content with friends on there, and can even create personalized pages for the things you share (something it calls 'Branded Links') – ex: if you want to create a share for work of yours, you can personalize it to look more professional. You can create passwords for your shares, expiration dates for your shares, you can check your shared link traffic, and more.

For photos and videos, you can view the photos and videos in the browser (or right there in the app) without needing to download them first.

Some of these features pCloud was early on, and then the bigger names adopted them.

Most of these exist on other platforms, but pCloud tends to have them all in one offering. Sometimes there's a feature that exists on Dropbox for example, but not on Google Drive – or vice versa.

Yes Syncthing (req set-up) or pCloud.com (easiest)

My set-up: pCloud on my Android phone (without Goo.. account) + home NAS based on Raspbian + Syncthing and laptop with pCloud (2 boots: Windows10 + Debian Bullseye)

Yes, this question has come up before on here (example) and there are several services that offer it. However, some appear to be buggy in practice when it comes to actually ONLY using the host's storage.

pCloud in my experience has never had such an issue, whereas Dropbox for example I can go to folders right now that aren't supposed to be taking up space in my account (they're from other people) and yet they are. For whatever reason, some of these services seem to have issues here & there with double-counting storage usage.

• I've never had such an issue with pCloud however, and nobody I know of has either - it's always just worked.

Wouldn't most services do this? Or at least, the more popular ones?

pCloud would additionally satisfy your 2nd requirement (of being able to mount it to your system) - as pCloud creates what's known as a 'Virtual Drive' (a P:\ drive, much like the C:\ drive on everyone's computer).

Once it's mounted, of course you could write a script or program to automatically transfer files.

pCloud (like many cloud services) generates a download link for the file - it's hashed, but can be universally shared. Anyone who has the link, can download with it.
It's also not locked to one IP address, and the expiration dates^(*) can be set to expire at whatever date (and even specific time) you'd like. The files can also be played (or loaded, if is non-video) in the browser.

^(*)Note: expiring links is currently a feature available on paid pCloud accounts - just like it's only available on paid Dropbox, Google Drive, and other service's accounts. But you didn't mention anything about only wanting free.

Not sure I understand why you mentioned looking for a service that provides this, but then listed off 4 places that you believe provide this?

Of those 4, pCloud is generally the one I recommend because of everything it has to offer, as well as its competitive pricing (they even have a Lifetime option, which you can find for 75% off usually ~1-3x per year, typically around major holidays - the 65% off you see on their website normally is really just their regular offering).

I know for sure it offers exactly what you're looking for because I, as anyone that's used them, have personally used that feature a lot (it's the normal way you interact with your files).

There is a cloud storage provider called pCloud (https://pcloud.com).

You register, install the app on Windows. There is a feature called "pCloud drive" which creates a virtual drive (p:) where you see all your files in their cloud. This is mostly userful.

But: - Win computer with user1 and user2 users. Both has win passwords set up. - User1 logs in, installs pcloud, logs in to his pcloud account. Doesn't sync any folder. Has a folder in pcloud called SECRET - you user SWITCH USER to return to Window's welcome screen - on win welcome screen user2 logs in - opens MY COMPUTER - sees USER1's PCLOUD DRIVE, P: (!!!!) - user2 CAN OPEN user1's SECRET FOLDER

I've sent this to the support of the company but "nfortunately, this is a known issue. Our developers are looking for a solution to this problem, however, we do not know, when it will be solved." since oct2019...

What do you think that can be done? Of course beyond abandoning the service...

pcloud.com is a great alternative and cheaper too. I left Dropbox years ago, then tried with Google Drive but for a couple of years I am with pCloud and I have never regretted it.

Sync your hledger with a hosting service. It can be Syncthing but an easier solution is pcloud.com, which provides a webdav endpoint. In your phone, install foldersync app to sync to a folder in your phone. Than install cone on your phone and points it to the synced folder.

This is the answer.

You would use the encryption provided by Cryptomator to basically read the contents of the virtual drive created elsewhere (ex: by Air Live Drive or RaiDrive - disclaimer, I've not used either of these two but the idea is simple and employed elsewhere). If you want a cloud storage solution that already doesn't store your files locally (so that you don't need to use Air Live or RaiDrive) you could go with pCloud, since pCloud automatically creates a virtual drive for you such that whatever is stored in it only actually appears to be saved on your computer, when in reality it's just essentially streaming it from your online cloud account (their servers).

This would satisfy all of your requirements.
You can then easily read the names of the contents of your encrypted drive/folder in Cryptomator.

Very simple.

I looked into this a lot and ended up going with https://pcloud.com Works with Linux (and Windows, OSX, Android etc..), they have a 500 GiB / 48 USD/year plan that's good enough for the kids for now and a 2 TiB 96 USD/year. All the sharing option/download options like dropbox, gdrive and friends, they even have a way to backup dropbox and gdrive! We've been using it for almost a year and are really happy with it.

Hello,

I would recommend you pCloud (https://pcloud.com) They are a cloud storage thats similar to Dropbox etc. but much better actually.

They have a Virtual Drive which actually extends your PC memory and does not duplicate the files on your System as other cloud storages.

You can sync your folders with this drive so anytime you make a change is automatically synced in the cloud to.

Also this means you can work on your files, pictures or whatever directly from the cloud without having to download the files first. Which is the most awesome feature for me.

You have access from all your devices. There are apps.

As for Encryption they have pCloud Crypto (https://www.pcloud.com/crypto) which is a client side encryption method. This means the files are encrypted on your device and the already encrypted ones are sent to their servers which is awesome because even they dont know what your files are. Not like MEGA, Spideroak etc.

They are up to 1 TB but they can give you whatever you want if you ask for it (I have 6 TB)

Try it out :)

Good luck!