[Cialug] overlay mounts

[Scott Yates]

That's pretty cool!

Thanks for the link!

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:39 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How "realtime" do you need it to be? Did a google search, found rclone that
> would give you something like rsync for cloud drives.
>
> http://rclone.org/
>
> -dc
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:35 PM, <murraymckee at wellsfargo.com> wrote:
>
> > How about have the cron job do the file move, unmount, and remount all at
> > one time?  Then there would be even less time that the cloud directory
> > files would be unavailable.
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Andrew Denner
> > Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 1:21 PM
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] overlay mounts
> >
> > A quick dirty low hanging fruit solution until a better one is found
> would
> > be to set up a cron job to check if a folder or file is there, and if not
> > it means things have become unmounted and if so then remount things?
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Jim Cole <jrcole at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Let me explain what I'm doing. I'd like to see if you have any
> > suggestions.
> > >
> > > I have a working overlay mount.
> > >
> > > Directory A is Upper
> > > Directory B is Lower
> > > Directory C is Overlay of A+B (r/w but files get written to A)
> > >
> > > That all works as expected.
> > >
> > > What I want to do is move the files from A to B at a later point. I
> > > can do this but then the mount becomes undefined and goes to heck. I
> > > can correct this by unmounting and remounting it.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of another union filesystem that would let me do that
> > > and not have to do unmount/remount?
> > >
> > > Here's the reason for all of this. Amazon Cloud Drive. I picked up the
> > > $5/year of unlimited storage. I have it mounted on my linux box via
> > > acd_cli. It's working well. The issue is that I cant write directly to
> > > it as its unstable, I need to use the upload utility in acd_cli. So
> > > Data goes to a local store(Directory A above) until I run the upload
> > > and move it to ACD(Directory B) above and Directory C is what everyone
> > > sees.
> > >
> > > I have tried unionfs fuse mount and overlayfs thats built into the
> > > kernel..both give me issues.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > -Jim
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