![]() ![]() I've set up a flow where any of my data science work that I save on the remote computer goes to the OneDrive they set up for me and then in turn gets downloaded by Insync to my home machine for backup. They wanted me to do my work via remote desktop. Lastly, I have a client who uses Microsoft 365. Click on the Add Google account option, and proceed to input details of your second Google Drive credentials. ![]() Insync also ensures that anything shared with me in DropBox automatically downloads to my machine. To add more Google accounts to Insync, just hover your mouse pointer over the little + sign on the top left corner of the GUI Window, and you’ll get a bunch of options as seen in the image below. Next, I have one really great client who shares their stuff with me via DropBox. This entry was posted in Technical and tagged dropbox, google drive, insync, linux, review on Octoby Chris.Can I just rant for a moment about how dependent and thankful I am on/for a file synchronizing program called Insync?įirstly, I use it to ensure that everything data science project I work on is backed up on OneDrive, and anything that is uploaded by clients to my OneDrive is saved on my machine.īackups are so important to me, as I've been thrown into complete disarray in the past due to hard drive failure. Based on $4.99 per month + $10 for Insync.I suspect if they bumped this to six months they’d find a lot of people install it, forget about it, learn to take it for granted, and then pay for it a soon as they realise they’re about to be without it. It’s also perhaps one place where the Insync team are missing a trick-it’s certainly not long enough to get you hooked. To be honest, unless you make a lot of use of Google Drive this is not really long enough to evaluate something that just works away in the background. If you want to try it out Insync is available on a 15 day free trial. Cost over a year with 100GB of storage, including software purchase, would be $69.88 with Google + Insync consumer 1, or $99 with Dropbox 2. When you consider that beyond the basic free allowance Google Drive is significantly cheaper than Dropbox you could quickly save this if you need more than a few gig of space. The cost is far from prohibitive-the consumer version is $10 per Google account. Actually you can snapshot the Insync local repository, but this is something I have not yet tested. If you have some deeply held philosophical objection to closed source this is not going to be for you, but otherwise it is definitely worth a look. You can rsync it daily/hourly to some backup destination, if you use differential backups or ZFS snapshots it will not take that much space. Much Linux software is open source and distributed free of charge, so using proprietary, paid for software may come as a bit of a shock to some Linux users. The one niggling issue is that sometimes it fails to start at system startup, but support from Insync staff has been responsive so I suspect this will get sorted out soon. It also supports selective syncing, allowing you to exclude certain folders from syncing. I’ve only had it installed for ten days or so, so it’s a bit early to tell if it functions reliably, but I’ve had few problems so far. And it can automatically convert Google format documents to LibreOffice format on the fly. It can handle having symlinks in the directory, so for example I’ve symlinked my Shotwell data directory to make sure that is backed up. It constantly monitors a configured directory and keeps it in sync with my Google Drive account. I have it installed on a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 and it seems to do what it says on the tin. Unlike the official client, it supports multiple Google accounts, if you have a need for that sort of thing. I’m focusing on Linux because it was trying to find a Google Drive client for Linux that led me to Insync, but it is also available for Windows and Mac. Insync is a full featured proprietary Google Drive client. Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Insync. Because unlike Dropbox, there is no official Linux client for Google Drive. Naturally it integrates seamlessly with Android, and Google provide a client for use on Windows and the Mac, so you can keep you tablet, phone and PC all synced up. Google Drive is a handy way to share files across multiple computers, or back up files into the cloud.
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