Mountable online storage using SpiderOak with no syncing

Question

I have a Linux VPS that I would like to turn into a media server. Like most cheap VPS's, it has a fairly small storage capacity. What I would like to do is attach the box to an online backup system such as SpiderOak where the files would reside and be directly accessible to either a webserver or media server software.

Since the VPS hdd is small, I do not want the files to be synced to it. I would like a storage system that is online only. Ideally mountable like a network drive.

Is there a workaround to hook up with SpiderOak that does not require syncing?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '12 at 00:03

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Box.com is similar to SpiderOak and/or Dropbox, and also allows mounting via WebDAV.

See their official support statement about WebDAV and FTP.

Or to go with a roll-your-own solution, you can always use Amazon S3 and s3fs.

answered Oct 09 '12 at 00:03

bahamat

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 21 '21 at 18:09

Very old post, but here is an answer from spideroak's website:

Neither FTP clients, WebDAV clients, nor web browsers are very well suited to doing cryptography as part of the upload/download process, so accessing your data this way would require the server to first decrypt your data, and then give it to your browser. This breaks our no knowledge model, where SpiderOak does not have your encryption keys, and SpiderOak servers are entirely unable to decrypt, read, or send any data.

While there have been recent developments in Javascript to handle intense cryptography in the browser as a part of a web based application, the libraries involved are not efficient, and more importantly, not vetted and security audited the way C libraries have been. At least for the time being, we think the best place for intense cryptography of the contents of one's filesystem is within a desktop application. As this changes, we'll be among the first involved.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 02 '12 at 09:42

Have you thought about setting up owncloud on that VPS? I used to to it with one, was able to stream files through the easily installable plugins too! You would have complete control over you files, and there wouldn't be scaned by other corporations like dropbox will do. There are Iphone and Andoid Apps! Give it a look: http://owncloud.org/

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 08 '12 at 17:58

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sshfs will work. It would require ssh access to another machine, though.

answered Oct 08 '12 at 17:58

UtahJarhead

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Mountable online storage using SpiderOak with no syncing

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