I had a question about how CloudDrive works. I understand that there is a local cache stored on one of the drives, and I'm pretty sure that local cache is used for a temporary place while files are being uploaded and a local cache for frequently used files. I'm currently using CloudDrive with Amazon Cloud Drive, basically as a test as I'm curious about the data loss. I've had a fair amount of uploads fail from ACD_CLI, but retrying them always works.
My question is that since most of us probably have a large amount of drives on our severs I'm curious about the cache. I've seen the threads here stating that there is potential data loss with Amazon Cloud Drive. I'm curious that if there is a large enough cache (let's say 500gb, or even expandable in the later BETAs) how CloudDrive would handle the failures. My assumption is that if the upload fails to ACD CloudDrive would attempt to re-upload the file and try again. Is this possible? This would help avoid failures, and then once the file is in the cloud the local file is deleted. Perhaps it does this and I'm overlooking how it works.
I can see two potential problems with this:
The cache is used for frequent files as well (from my understanding) meaning that there would be ~500GB of local data. I'd personally want to avoid that. The idea I had was to keep the file locally ONLY until it's fully uploaded and verified in the cloud.
The way CloudDrive uploads files wouldn't allow for this due to how it uploads (it looks like it uploads in parts), but I'm not familiar with the file store.
My purpose of using CloudDrive is an easy way to have the cloud data mounted as a drive in Windows that is also encrypted and can easily mounted to other machines within the network.
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I had a question about how CloudDrive works. I understand that there is a local cache stored on one of the drives, and I'm pretty sure that local cache is used for a temporary place while files are being uploaded and a local cache for frequently used files. I'm currently using CloudDrive with Amazon Cloud Drive, basically as a test as I'm curious about the data loss. I've had a fair amount of uploads fail from ACD_CLI, but retrying them always works.
My question is that since most of us probably have a large amount of drives on our severs I'm curious about the cache. I've seen the threads here stating that there is potential data loss with Amazon Cloud Drive. I'm curious that if there is a large enough cache (let's say 500gb, or even expandable in the later BETAs) how CloudDrive would handle the failures. My assumption is that if the upload fails to ACD CloudDrive would attempt to re-upload the file and try again. Is this possible? This would help avoid failures, and then once the file is in the cloud the local file is deleted. Perhaps it does this and I'm overlooking how it works.
I can see two potential problems with this:
My purpose of using CloudDrive is an easy way to have the cloud data mounted as a drive in Windows that is also encrypted and can easily mounted to other machines within the network.
Thanks!
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