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What's up with them? They now have three applications to do file syncing? Google Drive, Backup & Sync, and Drive File Stream?

I've kept using Dropbox for all these years because they never confused people like this. There was a single app that gave you a folder that synced.

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Personally, I think rsync.net is the best if you're in IT, particularly if you're a *nix user. Nothing better yet unless you wanted to roll your own. And the fact they use ZFS makes it great. You can choose where your data resides and it's fairly inexpensive all things considered. And to the best of my knowledge, I don't recall them being involved in anything overtly political. I like tech companies doing what they do best. Tech.

Thank you for your kind words - appreciated.

I hope that it will be useful and interesting to note that we have added 'rclone'[1] to our platform[2] which means that your rsync.net account is truly a swiss army knife for cloud storage organization.

This is very much like our 'borg' support - we actually have the binary executable installed on our end so you can run it properly. There is also a discounted signup for these two use-cases.[3][4]

[1] https://rclone.org/

[2] https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/3254

[3] https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html

[4] https://www.rsync.net/products/rclone.html

Also, Dropbox is not going to drop file syncing; it is who they are.

Google might drop any of their file syncing solutions, possibly even all three!

Just two, I think, the Drive applet was named Backup and Sync, while the Drive cloud-thing is still Drive. And DFS is a beefier, enterprisier, version of Backup and Sync.

I think?

Drive stream pretends to be a network drive and hides syncing. It locally caches files on demand and uploads and deleted local copies in the background. From my perspective it is just always up to date and let's me have tbs of files on a small computer.

It is a game changer because it is simple. It is a virtual drive in the cloud that is fast and seamless and behaves as if it is local.

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