#Linux alternative to dropbox how to#

Dropbox alternatives are mainly Cloud Storage Services but may also be File Sync Tools or Online Backup Tools. This is not exactly what I needed, but it solves the problem. Other interesting free Linux alternatives to Dropbox are ownCloud, MEGA, Syncthing and pCloud.

Also note that ruby script is ran only on demand. The 6 Best Free Dropbox Alternatives for Linux By MaDropbox is arguably the most popular cloud storage service available right next to Google’s Drive. I didn't do much testing, but on my box I get ~90M RAM used by Dropbox official client and 20-30M used by ruby script. All Internxt plans (including the free plan) have all features enabled, with no throttling Annual and business plans are also available. Internxt also provides a 20GB plan for 1.15/month and a 200GB plan for 5.15/month. I've configured my backup script (dead simple backup solution backing up database and directories to dropbox synced dir) to run its cron.rb script so new backups are uploaded. Internxt beats Dropbox in pricing, offering a free 10GB plan and comparable 2TB subscription for only 11.50/month. It can be run as a daemon, but I'm not using it this way. UPD: For now I've found a way to reduce memory usage.

#Linux alternative to dropbox how to#

So I'm looking for some way to rsync data into Dropbox or similar service or figure out how to make Dropbox consume less memory.

Problem is that VPS has 512M RAM and it was enough until new version of Wordpress (I don't know why, but now it consumes more memory) so I have a really bad choice: either stop Dropbox daemon and backups or to buy more memory (not that expensive but still). Currently on my VPS I'm running couple of sites and Dropbox daemon to store backups.