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https://github.com/mk-fg/tahoe-lafs-public-clouds

tahoe-lafs backend drivers for no-cost cloud providers
https://github.com/mk-fg/tahoe-lafs-public-clouds

cloud-backend driver python tahoe-lafs twisted

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tahoe-lafs backend drivers for no-cost cloud providers

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tahoe-lafs-public-clouds

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[Tahoe-LAFS](https://tahoe-lafs.org/) backend drivers for no-cost cloud

providers.



Project aims to provide necessary tools to allow using tahoe-lafs-provided

client-side security mechanisms and interfaces with no-cost public cloud storage

like skydrive, google drive and dropbox.



Previously, contents of this project were in my fork of tahoe-lafs

(cloud-backend* branches), but as code style and some pactices used here look

way different from upstream, decided that it'd be better to have a separate

project, to have clear boundary and avoid any confusion.



Necessary cloud-backend abstractions isn't in current Tahoe-LAFS releases yet

(as of 1.10a1), but available in

[LeastAuthority/tahoe-lafs](https://github.com/LeastAuthority/tahoe-lafs)

repository (or a local fork at

[mk-fg/tahoe-lafs](https://github.com/mk-fg/tahoe-lafs)).



I intentionally avoid calling providers mentioned above "free" as their policies

are usually openly hostile to users, developers or both, hence that word might

be confusing and innacurate in such context.



Installation

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Modules in

[pubclouds](https://github.com/mk-fg/tahoe-lafs-public-clouds/tree/master/pubclouds)

path of this repo correspond to backend drivers, which currently should be

placed into "src/allmydata/storage/backends/cloud" directory inside tahoe-lafs

source tree.



Dependency modules for these drivers are listed in the

[requirements.txt](https://github.com/mk-fg/tahoe-lafs-public-clouds/blob/master/requirements.txt)

file and can be either installed by hand or added to

"src/allmydata/_auto_deps.py" in tahoe-lafs, so that they'd be installed and

updated alongside other tahoe-lafs deps.



Finally, CLOUD_INTERFACES variable in

"src/allmydata/storage/backends/cloud/cloud_backend.py" should contain the new

backends, for example:



	CLOUD_INTERFACES = ("cloud.s3", "cloud.openstack", "cloud.googlestorage", "cloud.msazure", "cloud.skydrive")



As for the configuration - check out the

[doc/cloud.rst](https://github.com/mk-fg/tahoe-lafs-public-clouds/blob/master/doc/cloud.rst).



Alternatively, [cloud-backend-drivers

branch](https://github.com/mk-fg/tahoe-lafs/tree/cloud-backend-drivers) in a

local fork has all the changes above merged, along with this project linked as a

[git submodule](https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSubmoduleTutorial).

Just clone that one and you're all set.



Useable public-cloud backends

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This list doesn't include enterprise cloud drivers (such as s3, openstack,

googlestorage, msazure), which are implemented

[upstream](https://github.com/LeastAuthority/tahoe-lafs).



Space amounts in braces are for non-paid accounts, paid ones usually start from

5x+ of that number.



- [x] MS SkyDrive (7-25 GiB)



	Requires: [txSkyDrive](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/txSkyDrive/)



- [x] Yandex Disk (8-10 GiB, doesn't need special driver - works great with

  [davfs2](https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/davfs2))



- [x] box.net (5 GiB)



	Requires: [txboxdotnet](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/txboxdotnet/)



- [x] Ubuntu One (5 GiB, experimental)



	Requires: [txu1](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/txu1/)



- [ ] Google Drive (5 GiB)



- [ ] SugarSync (5 GiB)



- [ ] Wuala (5 GiB)



- [ ] Dropbox (2 GiB)



Fairly long (but still far from complete) list/matrix of such services can be

found [on

wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_hosting_services).



Note that a lot of backends [can be

used](http://www.sickness.it/crazycloudexperiment.txt) with local file cache and

proprietary (backend-specific) synchronization tools.