[SOLVED] Beginning to hate onedrive

[ohio_grad_06]

Microsoft onedrive, we've got access to it through a corporate account. A user is trying to use it on his surface, apparently there's a 20,000 file/folder limit even though they offer 1TB of space. Anyway, all kinds of sync errors, word files in the onedrive folder don't want to open, the onedrive for business desktop app is using like 35% of the CPU! Try to kill the process and it comes back. Disable it in startup, it comes back. Thinking at this point, just yank all the folders from the one drive folder, and have the user go through what he wants or what is newest, and add those, then may have to compress the rest of it?

BAH!

From what I read, dropbox at least has a 300,000 file limit. Dropbox is sounding better.

I feel like using an emoticon for hitting my head against a wall but don't see one.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

See I got no replies lol. Either way, situation resolved by kicking one drive to the curb in favor of dropbox. They got on the corporate account for about 125 a year with unlimited storage space. Onedrive seems to have a limit of 20000 files for 1tb worth of space. Which I didn't care for. Plus their desktop app seems intrusive. I mean the Onedrive app just seemed to intertwine itself to much into the system for my liking. With dropbox we mapped the documents folder to the dropbox folder. Issue solved, user is happy.

 

[freedomit]

My customer called yesterday as they must the OneDrive app on new pc and was now slow. CPU was 80%+ and HDD 100% with large queue, all sync processes.

 

[frase]

Personally, I despise these "cloud" services, best backup is a NAS offsite via a VPN and probably no-one replied as OP @ 8pm and you reposted what was it..was 3am? Other ppl have lives to live and things to do here, im sure somoene will be able to assist you on this matter.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

You are from Australia I see. I'm in the US central time zone, so for me it was like 3pm and 10pm. Not trying to offend anyone. Got a chuckle because I had seen at the time that I had like 198 views, but no replies. Anyway, we have VPN and NAS devices, but they wanted something seamless. Fix was we backed up all onedrive docs, unceremoniously booted onedrive off the system, logged into o365 deleted all his docs from there, signed him up for the corporate dropbox account we have access to, and began syncing the files. User is happy, we are happy. We set the location of his documents folder to be his dropbox folder.

VPN on a NAS device does work, but he sometimes teaches at a local college as well, plus is a minister, so he is constantly accessing files. Plus the dropbox account has versioning built in I think, so if he has any issues his files are backed up and versioned. He does not have to do the extra steps of going through VPN and sign in at each location of the 3-5 places he may be at any time.

His set up is actually kind of nice. He's got a new Surface Pro 3 with the i7, 8gb of ram, 256gb SSD, also has the dock that is made for the surface Pro 3. So when he comes in, he can just pop the keyboard off his surface, drop it into his dock, and it replaces his desktop, when he leaves, reattach, and instant tablet/laptop. Plus he can access his files anywhere with dropbox now, so he's pretty happy about that. I think now moreso, it's going to be a seamless experience for him.



Question. Does anyone else use dropbox for this? We've got a few servers that might not be a bad idea to start backing up on the cloud. Of course we do our local backups here. With Dropbox, we have corporate accounts with unlimited amounts of data. One of my thoughts is like our fileservers, to sync files from the shared directories into Dropbox and that theoretically it should update files as they change, with versioning available of course. Has anyone used Dropbox in this manner? We've used it some, but don't know that we've ever uploaded like say 100gb or whatever to it. Didn't know if anyone had tried this or had any snafu's. What is a good cloud backup for servers if this idea is not good? We tested Crashplan once and seemed like their stuff on a test system would never sync right.

 

[AdamsAPlus]

I have tried Dropbox, OneDrive and GDrive. Dropbox is by far my favorite. But Google's drive is a pretty close 2nd. If I used Google Docs more then it might be put 1st.

I also don't like OneDrive, I received errors all the time when using it. Seemed like it was forever corrupting files.

I don't recommend using a cloud drive as an actual back up. I think that there should still be a tape (or something similar) back up. As much as I love Dropbox, I just don't trust it as a true back up solution. Maybe because I'm old school, maybe because they don't advertise themselves as a backup solution.(if they do I haven't seen it) I do know that Dropbox keeps copies of previous versions of documents so it might be fine.

But I think - Cloud - Able to be hacked - then you loose everything. But there are cloud backups designed to be backups. Carbinite is the first that comes to my mind, which a lot of my customers use.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Agreed. It would be nice though to have a cloud backup in case of fire etc. Right now for older machines we are using ntbackup to get the contents of the drives to externals, some of the newer machines, I use another program that basically gets the data into large zip files. We have 3 of these now which seem ok.

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/desktop-hard-drives/drivestation/drivestation-duo-1

One 4TB, and 2 6TB. We run the dual drives as mirrors of one another though. But in case of fire or a couple of years ago, nearly got hit by a tornado. In that case, would be nice to have something.

 

[AdamsAPlus]

Well if you do have onsite back up then using dropbox as a secondary might not be a bad thing. What's the chance of loosing the information on Dropbox and your onsite backup at the same time. Probably close to 0. So I could agree to that configuration

 

[Markverhyden]

Synology, FreeNAS, ownCloud, etc. Roll your own and you decide your limits.

 

[kjm_phd]

I don't mind OneDrive... you get the free 1TB thing with Office 365, so I use it instead of Dropbox these days. The only thing that I can't stand is that if I open a doc in Publisher or Word from the recent docs menu it insists on re-downloading the file from the cloud, despite the fact that there is a local copy. If you open the file by double clicking in explorer (hence loading the file local) it opens 10x quicker.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

See in my experience, they give you that space, but you can only have 20000 files and or folders. Which isn't enough for the user here who had 50000 files and only 13gb in size. Then the desktop client kept trying to sync, eating up cpu cycles, plus the current appeared to be dug too far in the system for me. Just was not impressed.

 

[frase]

Synology, FreeNAS, ownCloud, etc. Roll your own and you decide your limits.

Hehe, like that quote "roll your own" as in cigarettes

 

[johnrobert]

If its M$ its no good