Softpedia reminds us
Canonical has discontinued its Ubuntu One file service and now the company has sent a final notice for the users who still haven't retrieved their files.
[...]"This is the FINAL reminder to make sure you have retrieved all your data from Ubuntu One filesync, as we will be deleting all the content permanently on 31st July 2014. After that date, we will no longer be able to retrieve any of your files."
"In order to make it easy for you to retrieve all of your content, we have released a new feature that lets you download all your content at once. Our website, one.ububnu.com, has been updated with instructions on how to conveniently download all your files. In addition, you still can use Mover.io's offer to transfer your data to another cloud provider for free. The Ubuntu One web interface is available for you to download individual files as well," reads the final warning from Canonical.
Starting August 1, all the files that have been left on the servers will be deleted and they will be virtually unrecoverable. Even with all the advanced warnings and with all the methods provided for file transfer, it's very likely that there will be users who don't have a clue about what is happening.
To those who aren't procrastinators: Where have you moved your files?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday July 26 2014, @07:43PM
I never used One for any real purpose, and only tested it enough to see if it worked. Not bothering to move any of the junk files I put out there in testing.
When this was announced I had a feeling it was likely to be short lived.
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday July 26 2014, @08:20PM
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by My Silly Name on Sunday July 27 2014, @01:13PM
Seems to me, the best options for storage of data haven't changed since my first IT jobs back in the '70s, namely: on a system controlled by yourself or in a locked fire-proof vault in an off-site storage facility.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Sunday July 27 2014, @04:48PM
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Nerdfest on Saturday July 26 2014, @07:50PM
All the features of UbuntuOne, plus proper encryption support, backup support, and a bunch of other nice features. It's come along way since its original version which some people found a bit complex to use. It's now as simple as DropBox but still has the other features as well. Copy.com is quite nice as well, and has a really nice referral program, but they don't have the encryption support of SpiderOak. Both have nice Android applications as well.
Blatant self -serving referrals - if you're interested in either, here's a couple of referral links that will get us both some extra space.
SpiderOak.com [spideroak.com]
Copy [copy.com]
I'd add DropBox, but aren't they still employing someone that is pretty explicitly in favour of government surveillance?
(Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Saturday July 26 2014, @08:14PM
Plus 1 for Spideroak.
Copy does have encryption, both in transit and on their disks. But they know the encryption key and its not at all clear that the user ever gets to know/set their own key. I see nothing to recommend them.
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(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Saturday July 26 2014, @08:19PM
Yeah, I consider that "does not have encryption". Copy is at least better than DropBox simply because of their choice of board members, but yes, SpiderOak is the best overall for features and security.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26 2014, @08:40PM
Researcher/Advocate for freedom and openness, Roy Schestowitz PhD, has taken to calling it PRISM Dropbox or NSA Dropbox. [google.com]
-- gewg_
(Score: 5, Informative) by Geotti on Saturday July 26 2014, @10:56PM
Here are the clean links for those not interested: spideroak.com [spideroak.com] and copy.com [copy.com]
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday July 27 2014, @02:22PM
I assumed people here could figure that out. Someone here said it's bad form to give referral thinks. I disagree as from what I can tell there's no downside and I did identify them as such.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Sunday July 27 2014, @02:50PM
Yeah, I guess that's true, but it's difficult to see, when e.g. on mobile as there's no status bar, so I decided to post the clean links for the lazy and/or unaware.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday July 27 2014, @03:45PM
On Android, and I think iOS as well, if you tap and hold a link, it will hover the target of the link. Handy feature, especially when you want to check links in email, etc.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Geotti on Sunday July 27 2014, @05:14PM
True, however, if the link's too long, it's "abbreviated" with an ellipsis (on iOS-Safari), so one has to hit copy and paste it in a text editor/field, which is a hassle.
(Score: 2, Informative) by panachocala on Sunday July 27 2014, @07:20AM
I heard of a "cloud" service that gives you unlimited space in exchange for 2X that space on your local drive plus use of your internet bandwidth. From what I understand, they distribute storage across all the users' spare hard drives.
Searching for it now I think it may be called symform: http://www.symform.com/ [symform.com]
Does anyone have any experience with it?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Nerdfest on Sunday July 27 2014, @02:30PM
There's also a company called CrashPlan (which I'm a happy customer of). They do online backups, and their software is free. The only thing you have to pay for is online storage at their facility. Using the software, you can back up a machine to another machine of your, friends machines, external disks, etc. The encryption is done very well. For backups on other machines, the machines need to run the software as well. I'm very happy with it (and have needed it a couple if times). I back up locally and use their facility as well as I got a good deal when i started, and even their regular prices are really good. Unlimited storage, no throttling, Linux support, Android app. Not really 'syncing' as such, but similar to what was mentioned above.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 28 2014, @01:37PM
Yeah but where do you find 2X unlimited disks? ...
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Sunday July 27 2014, @12:29PM
According to Ed Snowden's recent Guardian interview [theguardian.com], Dropbox has Condoleeza Rice on their board. He openly recommended avoiding DropBox like the plague and said SpiderOak is the safest option right now.
I've been a big SpiderOak fan for 4-5 years now, in large part because they let free accounts have all of the features of paid ones, just with smaller free space allocations. Their versioning has been a huge sanity-saver in working with Open/Libre Office Writer: every once in a while, a file will be corrupted beyond retrieval by a program crash or glitch before the local backup program runs, and while Dropbox wrote over the good copy with the bad one, SpiderOak keeps separate copies of everything so can go back to whichever one I need.
That said, using referral links in public is bad form. :-/ If you really want extra space, just hang around the official blog [spideroak.com], as they periodically run promo periods where they boost the user's allocation for commenting or emailing them.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by present_arms on Saturday July 26 2014, @08:07PM
I've never used it personally, all my files (which are easy to get again) are all local, I don't really trust ma stuff in the cloud. well nothing important :-)
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(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Saturday July 26 2014, @09:35PM
You do still have the files locally. These services let you sync them between machines. There are also several other services you can run on your own machines if you don't want to use other's services, but the concept is quite valid and quite useful. I'm a big fan of 'cloud' services if for nothing else than simple off-site backup.
(Score: 3, Informative) by yanom on Saturday July 26 2014, @08:40PM
I run the open-source syncthing (http://syncthing.net/ [syncthing.net]) on all my machines. It's a great open-source replacement for BTsync in that it doesn't require a centralized server, just a collection of machines sharing a synced folder.
(Score: 4, Informative) by kaszz on Saturday July 26 2014, @11:32PM
You can't trust cloud services - period!
If it ain't spying they still have a tendency for "oops" or just shutting business when you are too busy with something else..
(Score: 2) by lajos on Sunday July 27 2014, @03:35AM
the cloud is dead, long live the cloud!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Mix+Master+Nixon on Sunday July 27 2014, @04:24PM
Good riddance to it. It would not sync my data to their cloud, no matter how many times I uninstalled, reinstalled, or walked through all the troubleshooting steps. I'm sure they eventually fixed whatever was wrong with it, but by the time that (presumably) happened I'd long since moved on to DropBox, which had the distinct advantage of working as advertised.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday July 27 2014, @06:49PM
Is why you would use anything by Canonical, who have been throwing shit at a wall (and canceling it when it fails to become a cash cow) desperately trying to find a functional business model since Daddy Shuttleworth cut off the money flow? Ubuntu One is just one in a looong list of killed projects, Kubuntu, UbuntuTV, Ubuntu Phone/tablet, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, its obvious that they don't have a viable business plan and are just jumping on any bandwagon they can hoping they can find one before the well runs dry.
Until Canonical can show they can get positive cash flow (without whoring their userbase, they still pushing Amazon ads on the desktop?) I'd steer clear. Not like there aren't a billion other distros out there after all.
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