And... the Box and Drive sync's are meant to be two-way, so that you could have one or more local mirrors of your cloud storage.
It sounds like what you're looking for is an archiving function. Consider looking at backup software that can communicate with cloud storage. There is probably one that works with Box or Google. On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Greg Merritt <gmerr...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Whoops! Ok....we either need to tar or rethink. Thanks!!! > > -Greg > > > Le lundi 5 octobre 2015, Richard DESHONG <rdesh...@berkeley.edu> a écrit : > >> This is from community.*box.com <http://box.com>*, dated 12-16-2014: >> >> Unsupported Use Cases: >> We do not support syncing more than 40,000 files. The sync client works >> optimally when around 10,000 files are being synced. >> >> And on the *Google Drive* forum, there is a long discussion that has run >> for 2 yrs (ending last month) of people having issues syncing large numbers >> of files (seems like most of them are using the Windows version of Drive, >> so OSX results might be different). >> >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Greg Merritt <gmerr...@berkeley.edu> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello Micronet, >>> >>> We'd love to use our SPA bDrive as an archive location for a >>> infrequently and selectively accessed Bag of Holding for data sets of >>> millions of small, individual, already-compressed ~10K files. >>> >>> Folder drag & drop into the bDrive browser interface on Mac Chrome leads >>> to unhappiness, as the browser crashes after a while. >>> >>> Rather than tar-ing them, or dragging them over in subgroups, is there a >>> more direct way to send over the lot? We'd rather not do the desktop >>> synching with these, unless there's a super-elegant way to use that >>> mechanism. >>> >>> (Would *really* love to do an additive rsync here in the long run, but >>> I'm probably just dreaming here.) >>> >>> Thanks for any tips! >>> >>> -Greg >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: >>> >>> To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or >>> unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming >>> meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: >>> >>> http://micronet.berkeley.edu >>> >>> Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, >>> and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This >>> means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, >>> prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. >>> >>> ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use >>> the micronet-annou...@lists.berkeley.edu list. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Richard DeShong, Systems Analyst, Athletic Study Center, U.C.Berkeley >> 164 Chavez Student Center, Berkeley, CA, 94720-4220 >> 510-642-5123 asc.berkeley.edu >> > > > -- > Envoyé avec Gmail Mobile > -- Richard DeShong, Systems Analyst, Athletic Study Center, U.C.Berkeley 164 Chavez Student Center, Berkeley, CA, 94720-4220 510-642-5123 asc.berkeley.edu
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