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Ask HN: How to Sync Google Drive and OneDrive?
1 point by albert_e on Nov 27, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Can we do this directly on cloud without an "on-prem" (at home) component doing ths sync?

I have a valuable repo of documents that is a few hundred MB and grows slowly -- need to have a Plan B in case MegaCorp decides one day they don like my nose.



> How to Sync Google Drive and OneDrive? > Can we do this directly on cloud without an "on-prem" (at home) component doing ths sync? > I have a valuable repo of documents that is a few hundred MB and grows slowly -- need to have a Plan B in case MegaCorp decides one day they don like my nose.

No, I don't think so. At some point you have to have some computer involved somewhere. If you have a valuable repo of documents that is just a few hundred MB and grows slowly I would recommend you look into something like tarsnap You already have your data locally. Assuming your repo is less than 1 GB in size and you don't change your data too often, I think your expense is only USD 0.50 a month. based on Storage: 250 picodollars / byte-month of encoded data ($0.25 / GB-month) Bandwidth: 250 picodollars / byte of encoded data ($0.25 / GB)

Prepay fifty dollars and it should last over eight years at fifty cents a month. I don't use tarsnap but if your documents are valuable, it might be worth the cost.


if its not that big what I would do is make a little ec2 server with storage that you send your documents to, from there just use rsync/rclone on the server. maybe run it as a cron job.

I can think of a few ways to do this as long as you are wiling to spin up a tiny instance somewhere, you could even do it in a /tmp directory if you dont want to save it there.




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