megatools
Open-source command line tools for accessing Mega.co.nz cloud storage. (by megous)
BackDrop
A cold storage backup tool for drives, folders, and network shares (by TechGeek01)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
megatools
Posts with mentions or reviews of megatools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
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What's a really niche tool you use that you can't live without?
I want to see tools most of us have never heard or even thought of. Extractors for obscure websites or websites we don't think of in terms of extractors like megatools or Mediafire Bulk Downloader. "Glue" tools like rclone's serve command (as well as the rest of rclone) and lftp that makes stuff work together easier. Phone apps like FE File Explorer Pro (sadly the free version seems to be gone) that makes accessing a home FTP server so much easier (once you've set up OpenVPN of course)
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Watch mega.nz videos with mpv
the requirements are megatools plus mpv
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Name of a tool that allows you to download from sites like zippyshare and mega
megatools works fine for mega. I'm not aware of a similar tool for zippyshare.
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Edit this title to a be helpful summary of your request
I need to mass transfer files between MEGA & my box and back, I've come across this program MegaTools I'm sure there are other ways to do it, maybe one of you smart ppl could tell me
- Need to download 30TBs of ISOs from Mega.
BackDrop
Posts with mentions or reviews of BackDrop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
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What's a really niche tool you use that you can't live without?
I made BackDrop to solve this. If I have, for example, two folders and two drives, and one folder fits on each drive, I don't want to fill one drive and then spill over to the second drive if it means splitting one folder between two drives. I want the cleanest way possible to copy data to as few drives as possible without splitting folders if they don't need to be.
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Is there software for automating swapping data between mostly full disks?
Just leaving this here in case it could be of some use. https://github.com/TechGeek01/BackDrop
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Differential backups when 2 drives cannot be directly compared/synced
I wrote BackDrop a while back. While this was originally because I was looking for a way to backup to external drives where the data being backed up was larger than the drives, and required splitting between more than one drive, it's evolved since.
- I updated BackDrop to support arbitrary folders instead of just drive letters!
- The backup tool I wrote now supports Linux, and selecting multiple sources. Thought you guys might find it useful!
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Various backup methods?
For manual copies, TeraCopy is awesome, cause you can have it verify files for you. I did actually write my own tool, though that was mostly so that I didn't have to think about handling not all files fitting on one drive (5-6TB of stuff, and a mix of 2-4TB drives). It may or may not suit you, but feel free to give it a look if you're interested. Currently it was designed to back up folders on a network share to a bunch of local drives, so unfortunately, it won't show local drives for source selection (though I'm working on making it able to do that).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing megatools and BackDrop you can also consider the following projects:
plowshare - Command-line tool and engine for managing sharing websites
Cathy - Cross-platform python implementation of Robert Vasicek's Win-only popular Cathy disk catalog tool
megadown - bash-downloader for mediafire, zippyshare & mega
media_management_scripts - Set of tools for managing media libraries
mkvtoolnix-batch-tool - Batch video and subtitle processing program with the ability to add, remove, or extract subtitles from all video files in a directory and its sub-directories.
netxms - NetXMS - Open Source network and infrastructure monitoring and management