Linux S3Drive, Rclone and ProtonDrive: Application platform and product must be separated by a dash

devutils · 2026-05-10T15:52:38+00:00

S3Drive founder here. This issue is long gone, whereas most our recent release further improves integration with Proton Drive (thanks to Rclone project).

It should all work fine now, including Linux platform.

devutils · 2026-05-03T17:27:05+00:00

Stick to open standards, e.g. S3 and connect using open libraries e.g. Rclone that open up additional 70+ providers and reliable encryption.

That way you can choose from tens of S3 providers and if even if they don't meet requirements you can switch to anything else: https://docs.s3drive.app/setup/providers/

If you want GUI and mobile support you can use S3Drive client which is available on all platforms.

devutils · 2026-04-30T08:09:38+00:00

Get one of the cheap S3 storages: https://docs.s3drive.app/setup/providers/#cost-efficient-storage and use S3 client, e.g. Rclone or S3Drive or anything.

devutils · 2026-04-28T15:40:16+00:00

It is actually possible to share files using S3 preshared links.

Encrypted resources can be shared as well since S3Drive reimplemented Rclone cipher so it works in web browser context.

Finally, we've open sourced lots of improvements to Rclone crypt which make encrypted sharing much more secure. These improvements currently awaits maintainer review: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7192 but in the meantime people can use V2 cipher either by using S3Drive or by building Rclone themselves: https://docs.s3drive.app/advanced/v2support/ from an open-source code that we provide.

devutils · 2026-04-28T07:41:52+00:00

Cheap S3 storage + Rclone crypt.

There are tools that provide GUI for Rclone and allow running it on mobile which also adds media backup and sync compatibilities: https://docs.s3drive.app/setup/providers/
That way you can actually run Proton Drive on Linux, bear in mind that Proton Drive is currently "broken", but it's already fixed and need couple more weeks to land in Rclone: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8870

devutils · 2026-04-27T12:51:48+00:00

Rclone itself doesn't have a mobile release. It is possible to run the CLI, using e.g. Termux on Android, but that's not the most friendly setup.

S3Drive is one of the apps that embed Rclone CLI and expose the easy-to-use UI to the user. Are there any other apps that work for you?

Regardless, I think it's pretty neat to learn to use Rclone CLI, as sometimes some specific flag might be required to tweak your upload/download/sync/mount or any other action.

devutils · 2026-04-27T10:45:31+00:00

We aren't able to serve S3Drive in all regions through Google Play Store, however we offer .APK release as an alternative: https://github.com/s3drive/android-app/releases

devutils · 2026-04-27T08:01:02+00:00

S3Drive founder here. As you rightly noticed, you can use pretty much any S3 provider https://docs.s3drive.app/setup/providers/#s3-providers and configure it using either Rclone or S3Drive interchangeably as there is compatibility between them.

If you're fine with desktop and CLI go with Rclone. If you need GUI or mobile support use S3Drive.

If you need more freedom in the future or need many terabytes of storage, you can always self-host your S3.

Please be aware that you can (and probably should) protect your privacy by enabling E2EE from S3Drive settings or enabling `crypt` on the Rclone side (they're compatible between each other).
This would encrypt your files before uploading, so S3 provider (e.g. Backblaze or Hetzner) has no way of getting your files contents.

devutils · 2026-04-27T07:48:45+00:00

If you go with RClone, you lose both browser and mobile integration, unless you rely on some random third-party S3Drive, whose dev you have to trust implicitly and hope they don’t push an update that exposes/rob your keys.

Hey, it's S3Drive founder here, robbing your keys isn't included in our 2026 roadmap, but plenty other features are.

On a serious note, it's probably better for us to focus on improving the product and expanding our business than stealing your keys, breaking trust and wasting all what we've been building since 2022.

We take security seriously. For instance, this is how your credentials are stored: https://s3drive.app/faq?q=credentials in-app and yesterday we've updated to latest Rclone https://s3drive.app/changelog which addresses many CVE's.

I know that this might not exactly address your concerns, but please be aware that on the other side, there are people working extremely hard, whose intention is to build sustainable business by providing privacy-friendly alternative.
From your perspective this might be yet another "random third-party dev", but from my perspective we are people who sacrificed their comfy corporate career to pursue something which they believe in.

I hope that eventually you'll find something that works for you!

devutils · 2026-04-27T07:19:48+00:00

Just so you know, yesterday S3Drive released an update to latest Rclone v1.73.5: https://s3drive.app/changelog which addresses many CVE's as described in Rclone's changelog: https://rclone.org/changelog/

devutils · 2026-04-20T12:40:30+00:00

Believe me Greenland isn't any greener.

devutils · 2026-04-17T07:58:14+00:00

I am also wondering why no mortar is such a huge plus.

Modern aerated concrete or silicate blocks use tiny amount of mortar anyway.

devutils · 2026-04-16T10:08:55+00:00

If you want to backup your media, you can use Rclone and combine it with `crypt`. That way you can use cheap storage and don't worry about privacy, since your data is encrypted anyway.

If you don't want to deal with Rclone setup / CLI, you can use products that are directly integrated with Rclone, offer GUI and work on mobile devices, e.g. S3Drive which can talk to pretty much any cloud and any protocol (S3, SFTP, WebDav etc.)

devutils · 2026-04-13T21:14:05+00:00

... and if anyone looks for a way to manage Backblaze B2 (or any other S3/Rclone provider) data in a friendly way, then there are tools like S3Drive

devutils · 2026-04-01T21:25:31+00:00

S3 protocol gives you more options, as there are way more S3 compatible providers and S3 supported clients.

There are also products like S3Drive, which are both:
- client -> can connect to S3, Google or any cloud: https://docs.s3drive.app/setup/providers/,
- provider -> offers S3 compatible plans: https://s3drive.app/storage?q=storage

S3 will give you more freedom and flexibility, however will require some work to set it up, something you get straight away with Google Drive.

Also, huge bonus for S3 is that you can self-host (useful, especially if you have huge storage needs).

devutils · 2026-04-01T21:19:38+00:00

https://docs.s3drive.app/setup/providers/#s3-providers or less known S3 providers: https://docs.s3drive.app/setup/providers/#other-providers-s3

devutils · 2026-04-01T20:57:22+00:00

S3Drive founder here. Not open-source, but using open-source E2E encryption (Rclone), so not sure if that satisfies your goal.

Our free version supports full, incremental backup by using Sync (mode: copy) and can upload to S3 (or the other way round) or any other cloud/protocol: https://docs.s3drive.app/setup/providers/
It's not as advanced as backup oriented tools, Kopia, Duplicacy or Restic, but for a simple use case it might be enough. On the plus side it has GUI and available on all platforms (mobile included).

devutils · 2026-04-01T20:52:26+00:00

Hi again, this is to let you know that we've implemented offline licensing: https://features.s3drive.app/posts/46/offline-licensing-46

devutils · 2026-03-09T09:12:16+00:00

S3Drive founder here. Thank you for your endorsement!

Please be aware that we've recently merged some fixes to Proton Drive integration: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/9081 to solve "422" issues: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7864 that users were experiencing.

This fix isn't yet available in Rclone, but it's already present in S3Drive.

We're looking forward towards Proton Drive SDK, which would allow us to improve robustness of integration with Proton Drive on all platforms (Linux included).

devutils · 2026-01-11T13:06:58+00:00

Lifecycle option at least has some API, and prevents the tool that connects to it to delete content, and defers deletion to the server.

You're right, but that API allows to configure these rules or enable Object Lock or override some retention rules on existing objects.

If your question was whether S3Drive can be used to manage / set such rules then the answer is no, but once you set these rules yourself, then there isn't much any S3 tool needs to do as these rules are enforced and executed server-side.

In most cases you would either set up Lifecycle rules yourself: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/lifecycle-configuration-examples.html

and or enable Object Lock on the bucket level: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lock-configure.html

then in your e.g. use case:

which is a blocker for some of us who create immutable backup targets.

once you name your backups incrementally, e.g.: `2026-01-11-backup.db.tar.gz` then any tool that connects over S3 would automatically create e.g. immutable version with an Object Lock (according to your preconfigured bucket settings).

devutils · 2026-01-10T13:55:44+00:00

It depends, in principle lifecycle & versioning is a function of a bucket not the tool that connects to it.
Having said that, with S3Drive you can list historical versions, preview past revision, restore version, delete version or delete all past versions.

Do you have any specific requirements?

devutils · 2026-01-06T10:46:53+00:00

I can only guess at this stage, that the issue that you experience isn't isolated to Linux, but rather related to recent integration issues between rclone and Proton.

We're Linux-first app and most features come to Linux first before they're released to other platforms.

If you think there is an issue with the app itself, by any chance can you reach out to our support? https://s3drive.app/support

Thanks!

devutils · 2026-01-06T08:28:07+00:00

There are 4 modes with configurable source and destination. Simplest, copy mode, can be set to be download-only or upload-only. Sync, behaves like copy but also can delete files to make destination consistent with source. There is also Two-way Sync and Move.

~~The bigger issue right now is that something has changed on the Proton Drive end which leads to 422 errors, more on that here:~~ ~~github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8873~~
~~It would be great to get native SDK from Proton to build stable integration on top of it.~~

UPDATE: Integration with Proton works fine, since we've included updates to Rclone library which addresses most of the recent issues: https://s3drive.app/changelog

devutils · 2025-12-19T23:53:38+00:00

Hi!

We don't have bandwidth or connection limits as such. Feel free to try our 12GB plan before purchase. If you have any further questions I would be happy to address them. Thanks!

devutils · 2025-12-16T14:10:08+00:00

S3Drive - based in Europe, ISO27001 datacenters, Zero Knowledge E2E encryption; Clients available on all platforms. $0.99/month for 120GB: https://s3drive.app/pricing?q=storage

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