Backing up to MS OneDrive

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Liam Proven wrote:
>On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 19:00, Little Girl wrote:

>> OneDrive Sync for Linux (Ubuntu):
>> https://medium.com/@glmdev/onedrive-sync-for-linux-ubuntu-2bcbf6777ee4  
>
>This seems to be aimed at wanting to keep a home directory on it,
>which is not what I want.

I may be misunderstanding what you're saying, but you can specify any
directory for it to use on your GNU/Linux machine even though the
home directory is the default.

Here's a video of someone installing, configuring, and starting it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE9YRXki74Y

>> OneDrive Free Client:
>> https://github.com/skilion/onedrive  
>
>I've tried that and it seemed to work.
>
>However, it's  caching client. I thought that would make things more
>difficult for backing up. I may be wrong on this.

I don't know. It was the mention of local changes being uploaded
right away and remote changes being delayed that gave me the
impression that data can go in both directions with this tool.

>> That sounds reasonable to me. After all, it has no way of knowing
>> whether you have other tasks to do before dismounting.  
>
>TBH I just expected it to work like a normal mount command.

Any mounting I've ever done has required a separate dismount. Usually
not Ctrl+C, though.

>In a previous contract I used Google Drive for file-transfers between
>my machine and employees of the client. It was necessary to use GNOME
>Shell functionality (well, Unity in my case) to mount the drive, but
>once mounted, it acted like a normal mount command, as did
>unmounting.
>
>This is different, but OneDrive is very different from Google Drive.
>
>However, I now use Xfce and don't have the GNOME virtual file system
>stuff available to me, so I needed a different method.

If you're still able to back up your data to Google Drive, you might
be able to use something to backup Google Drive to OneDrive. It would
be extra steps, but might work.

>> That's also good to know and easily handled.  
>
>Once you know, yes. :-)
>
>The thing is, MS don't support Linux directly, so this kind of stuff
>is not obviously documented!

True. That's just like using a USB stick to transfer files between
Windows and GNU/Linux. If you use the wrong file system on the USB
stick, it won't work. You have to figure that out for yourself, which
some of us ended up doing the hard way.

>The whole "MS ♥ Linux" thing is a big marketing lie, IMHO.

I think it's more an olive branch being offered to those who have
been alienated from Windows to try to bring them back in. It's also
helpful to those of us who go around trying to encourage others to
discover GNU/Linux. All those folks who used to be suspicious of
GNU/Linux as some strange unheard-of thing can now be reassured by
pointing out that Microsoft actually encourages its use. I heavily
appreciate Microsoft's help with that.

As someone who requires Windows for work, I must maintain at
least one Windows machine at all times and stay familiar with how to
use it. It's not my favorite operating system and I wouldn't trust it
with my personal data, but I respect it as a useful tool that can put
food on the table (and I'm a secret admirer of PowerShell as a
ridiculously fun scripting language to explore).

-- 
Little Girl

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