onedriver VS gocryptfs

onedriver is a native Linux filesystem for Microsoft OneDrive: - https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver

Alternatively, I read good things about https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver which can download only the files that I need at times instead of the whole account, but looking at the install methods on debian, there's only information regarding Debain 10 and 11 installs. For example, I can install .deb packagaes here, but again only refers to deb 10/11.

There are OneDriveGUI which uses abraunegg's onedrive client as backend, onedriver which has been around with a GUI for longer, and of course the classic Insync which is paid.

I am a big big fan of the OneDriver client - https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver

* Via the 'onedriver' client - https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver - Native file system that only provides the OneDrive 'on-demand' functionality, open source and free. Supports Personal, Business account types. Currently does not support Shared Folders or SharePoint.

/home/my_usr/.cache/paru/clone/onedriver/.gitignore src pkg *.tar.xz *.tar.gz *.tar.zst *.log /home/my_usr/.cache/paru/clone/onedriver/PKGBUILD # Maintained by Faisal Moledina (faisal at moledina dot me) pkgname=onedriver pkgver=0.13.0 pkgrel=0 pkgdesc="Native Linux filesystem for Microsoft OneDrive" arch=('x86_64') url='https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver' license=('GPL3') depends=('fuse2' 'webkit2gtk') makedepends=('pkgconf' 'go') source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::$url/archive/refs/tags/v$pkgver.tar.gz") sha512sums=('aa831017c4d9612fbdea1e2fab05864f84074e6b80e7613ae739d2954e7b6e975d6a1aaaaba330c0038dae69839dcf6> build() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" export CGO_CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" export CGO_CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" export CGO_CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" export CGO_LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" go build \ -v \ -trimpath \ -buildmode=pie \ -mod=readonly \ -modcacherw \ -ldflags "-X main.commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD) -linkmode external -extldflags \"${LDFLAGS}\"" \ ./cmd/onedriver export CGO_CFLAGS="-Wno-deprecated-declarations ${CFLAGS}" go build \ -v \ -trimpath \ -buildmode=pie \ -mod=readonly \ -modcacherw \ -ldflags "-X main.commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD) -linkmode external -extldflags \"${LDFLAGS}\"" \ ./cmd/onedriver-launcher } package() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" install -Dm 755 $pkgname "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$pkgname install -Dm 755 $pkgname-launcher "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$pkgname-launcher install -Dm 644 "resources/[email protected]" "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/user/[email protected] install -Dm 644 resources/$pkgname.desktop "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/$pkgname.desktop install -Dm 644 resources/$pkgname.png "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/onedriver/$pkgname.png install -Dm 644 resources/$pkgname.svg "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/onedriver/$pkgname.svg install -Dm 644 resources/$pkgname.1 "$pkgdir"/usr/share/man/man1/$pkgname.1 }

When you get to it - there are only 5 reliable ways to access OneDrive on Linux/Unix platforms: * Via the OneDrive Client for Linux - https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive - this 'syncs' your data, bi-directional operation, open source and free. Supports Personal, Business & SharePoint account types and Shared Folders. A Docker container is also available for all major architectures (x86_64, ARMHF, AARCH64). If you need a GUI for onedrive client management use: https://github.com/bpozdena/OneDriveGUI * Via the 'onedriver' client - https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver - Native file system that only provides the OneDrive 'on-demand' functionality, open source and free. Supports Personal, Business account types. Currently does not support Shared Folders or SharePoint. * Via 'rclone' - https://rclone.org/ - one way sync client, open source and free. Has limitations with SharePoint. * Via non-free clients such as 'insync', 'ExpanDrive' * Via the web browser of your choice

There are OneDrive clients for Linux already, e.g. https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive or https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver.

Take a look at OneDriver. Its a decent OneDrive client for Linux and works really well! It should pair up nicely with LibreOffice, which is a Microsoft Office alternative that is preinstalled on most Distros. Don’t worry, Google Drive also works (honesty not as good as OneDriver). most distros should allow your to “connect to online accounts,” which should allow you to sign in with your g account.

I'm looking to improve my documents syncing setup. Currently I'm using owncloud, but that seems overkill for just files syncing and it requires maintenance, so I gave Syncthing a look. The "Untrusted device encryption" was not appealing to me because I'm not convinced by the security aspects yet, and also because it is in beta for now. I used gocryptfs [1] in the past and was quite happy with it, so I'm planning to use it on top of Syncthing to have files synced encrypted. As far as I have read this setup (Syncthing + gocryptfs) seems to be used by several people and has already been discussed by gocryptfs' author, who recommended a `-sharedstorage` flag for such use case [2]. Reading [3] I think gocryptfs is more suited for files syncing than cryfs. I'm aware that the metadata (file size, structure, …) of my files are not encrypted but that's a compromise I'm ready to make.

I would be happy to hear about opinions about this approach.

[1] https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/

[2] https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/549#issuecomment...

[3] https://www.cryfs.org/comparison

If you want selective encryption, rather than full drive encryption, to be less conspicuous: gocryptfs (Linux)/cppcryptfs (Windows).

https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs might be a solution. I dont use it, tried to for some backups but ran into some issues unrelated to the solution itself but with my backup solution.

JungleDisk was backup software I used ~2008 that allowed mounting S3. They were bought by Rackspace and the product wasn't updated. Seems to be called/part of Cyberfortress now.

Later I used Panic's Transmit Disk but they removed the feature.

Recently I'd been looking at s3fs-fuse to use with gocryptfs but haven't actually installed it yet!

https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs

I think the fundamental issue seem to maybe be the changing inode numbers with things like gocryptfs. Git annex needs those to be static as far as I can tell.

Veracrypt is stil a fine option but if you want to have regular backups, it's not that great imo. Say you want to automatically backup your files to some cloud without having to trust their promises of privacy, you could use something like gocryptfs. It creates a folder of your files but in encrypted form. You then copy / sync that folder using any backup program.

A comparison gocryptfs would be appreciated, since this software, at first glance, has no differentiating features from it.

https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/

There is a pretty nice project gocryptfs that instead of encrypting container, it substitute on the fly virtual filesystem that encrypts content and file objects. So, if you would share to cloud that virtual filesystem, you don't sacrifice a byte on your system.