Amazon Cloud Drive Auto Sync

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Hi all

Anyone know of a way to autosync Amazon Cloud drive to an external hard drive (Mac user) so that when I drop RAW files onto the external drive, they are autobacked up to Amazon cloud?

Or, once dropped on the hard drive, I can 'update' amazon cloud to pick up the changes?

I would like Amazon Cloud to 'mirror' the external hard drive.

Thanks all

Greg
 
I just found WingFS. I'm going to download and give it a try. It might be possible to make it work with Automator.

Edit: Doesn't support Amazon Cloud Drive, only S3.
 
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If you fancy tinkering on the command line, then acd_cli looks like it will do the trick for mounting Amazon Cloud Drive. Automator should enable the sync part. I will have a go and report back.
 
Andy Taylor said:
If you fancy tinkering on the command line, then acd_cli looks like it will do the trick for mounting Amazon Cloud Drive. Automator should enable the sync part. I will have a go and report back.
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just found this

https://www.arqbackup.com/

From the Blurb!

You can back up to your own Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive accounts, or your SFTP server or NAS. Use that extra space in your existing cloud account to store your encrypted backups.
  • Arq backs up everything or just the files you choose.
  • Arq doesn't skip videos or ignore certain file types
  • Arq backs up files of any size -- 4GB, 40GB, it doesn't matter
  • Arq backs up your external drives
  • Arq backs up your network drives
  • Arq doesn't delete backups of your external drives just because you haven't plugged them in lately
  • Arq doesn't forcibly delete old backup records (unless you tell it to).
  • Arq restores your files onto any computer.

Looks superb.. and its nit a subscription either. So for the 49$ price plus the amazon 60 per year you get unlimited cloud backup, including external drives.

need to look into it a bit more but for the price, even if used for just a couple of years, looks good.
 
Andy Taylor said:
If you fancy tinkering on the command line, then acd_cli looks like it will do the trick for mounting Amazon Cloud Drive. Automator should enable the sync part. I will have a go and report back.
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I use this on my Ubuntu server (glorified NAS) with a cronjob running daily that just uploads anything from my raw photos directory to the equivalent on my Amazon Cloud Drive and it works really well.
I made some notes on setting it up, which I'll dig out and share when I'm home later.
 
Andy Taylor said:
If you fancy tinkering on the command line, then acd_cli looks like it will do the trick for mounting Amazon Cloud Drive. Automator should enable the sync part. I will have a go and report back.
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that sounds quite techy for me...

Interested though
 
jwsmith said:
I use this on my Ubuntu server (glorified NAS) with a cronjob running daily that just uploads anything from my raw photos directory to the equivalent on my Amazon Cloud Drive and it works really well.
I made some notes on setting it up, which I'll dig out and share when I'm home later.
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I basically followed the ACD CLI docs (https://acd-cli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) for installing via Pip from Github and authorization (using a whitelisted Amazon security profile) and then used http://xmodulo.com/access-amazon-cloud-drive-command-line-linux.html to become familiar with the usage and perform the initial sync. I then setup a cronjob running daily during the night that just runs 'acd_cli upload /<path>/<to>/<local>/<photos>/ /Pictures/'.
Setting up the Amazon security profile took a bit of playing to get working but the important settings that weren't obvious were 'Consent Privacy Notice URL', which should be any valid URL (the Amazon auth prompt presents it to the logging in user) and 'Allowed Origins' and 'Allowed Return URLs' should both be 'http://localhost'
 
jwsmith said:
I basically followed the ACD CLI docs (https://acd-cli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) for installing via Pip from Github and authorization (using a whitelisted Amazon security profile) and then used http://xmodulo.com/access-amazon-cloud-drive-command-line-linux.html to become familiar with the usage and perform the initial sync. I then setup a cronjob running daily during the night that just runs 'acd_cli upload /<path>/<to>/<local>/<photos>/ /Pictures/'.
Setting up the Amazon security profile took a bit of playing to get working but the important settings that weren't obvious were 'Consent Privacy Notice URL', which should be any valid URL (the Amazon auth prompt presents it to the logging in user) and 'Allowed Origins' and 'Allowed Return URLs' should both be 'http://localhost'
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Holy crap....you may as well be speaking Latin. Is there an app for all that lol ;)

Great info im sure but for me that way too techy. Its aright if I get it working but if something goes wrong then I would struggle. I could do it, I just don't want to spend the time really. Looking for a quick out of the box solution.
 
So im just running the 30day trial of the below


https://www.arqbackup.com/

So far its really impressive. You can select the folders and the drives to back up, and it ticks away in the background. You can see all the folders etc on Amazon.

So for the purchase price of £50 plus Amazon £50 (then £50 a year)you get full on unlimited backup to the cloud. Unlike Backblaze, you have control over the backup files so reinstating a file is as easy as downloading it from amazon.

I would still like a RAID device though as local copy should the internet not be available.


So ideally
2 X 3TB RAID array for local copy
1 X 3tb Local External drive for Time machine (swapped out monthly and stored off site)
1 X Backblaze cloud backup. Runs overnight
1 X Arq / Amazon Backup

That's 5 copies of files both on and off site, both local and cloud.

Any thoughts?

Rgds
 
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