Whether you need to back up important files or sync your data between several devices,
MEGA cloud is probably the best service to do it on Linux.
MEGA provides robust cloud storage with strong emphasize on privacy.
It features User Controlled Encryption,
and what is the most attractive
you get 50 Gb storage for free.
Do you know any other cloud service with such attractive features?
Let's have a loot at it in more details.
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Everything is moving to the cloud nowadays.
It is very convenient because you can access your data from anywhere.
I am a long time Dropbox user.
I use it to sync files between different computers and to backup the most important files.
The problem is, however, Dropbox gives you only 2Gb for free.
I am lucky on that side.
Over the years, I extended my Dropbox free space to almost 25 Gb by
bringing friends to the Dropbox.
But if you just opened a Dropbox account, you are restricted to 2 Gb of free space,
unless you pay to upgrade.
But there is a better alternative.
A few days ago, I was helping my sister to arrange a data-storage solution for her, and
I found Mega cloud service.
I was surprised by the features it offers.
You get: 50 Gb of space for free,
Very functional web interface that can be enhanced with Firefox or Chrome add-ons.
Native graphical and command line applications for Linux.
A mobile client for Android and other mobile OSes.
All data is encrypted on a user end, so the company cannot read your data.
And the last but not the least Mega is open source software.
So, you can check the code and decide if you trust it or not.
All the code is available on GitHub.
You can test Mega web application even without registering.
Just drag and drop a file to the website.
Creating an account is also very easy.
Enter your name, email and a password.
After you have registered on the website, it is important to backup the Recovery Key.
You will receive an email with a link to the Recovery key.
Alternatively, you can go to the Settings, and in the tab Email & Password,
you can find your Recover Key.
You can either save the file with a key or copy it to the clipboard
and paste somewhere in a safe place.
For example, in your password manager.
The Mega web application is neat.
In the main tab, your have your account overview.
In the next tab, you can see your cloud folders and files.
You can preview Images.
You can also mark your files with different color
and you can also them as your favorite with a star.
If someone shares Mega folders or files with you, you will see them in this tab.
You can also have a contact book if you know someone who also uses Mega.
There is even a possibility to chat with your contacts.
You also can make audio and video calls.
But I have not tested how well they work.
At the bottom, you have your trash bin.
Then settings.
I am not going to explain you all the available settings.
They are very simple and clear.
I will stop more on the desktop app settings.
And the last tab is the transfer history.
I have tested this web app by transferring several files of around 1 Gb each.
It worked quite well.
All the transfers were successful.
Mega recommends installing Mega add-ons for better performance and security.
If you intend to use only the web-interface, install the addon for your browser.
It is a very simple addon; you just need to install and enable it.
However, I believe most of the users will use Mega desktop application.
To download the desktop program, you need to go to the main menu and in the app section
find Sync Client.
It is available for all popular distribution.
I will download and install a Linux Mint version.
I have also tested Mega on Arch Linux.
It is available in the AUR.
In Linux Mint, the installation process is very simple.
You need to right click on the deb file and select open with Gdebi Installer.
Then click install, enter your password
and when the installation is complete close the installer.
But it is always better to install packages from a command line, so you can better see
if any errors occurred.
Open the terminal and type: sudo dpkg -i Downloads/megasync-xUbuntu_16.04_amd64.deb
This command should work on Debian and any Debian distro like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS.
When the program is installed, you can find it in your menu by typing Megasync.
It opens in your system tray.
Click on the icon and you will see the summary of the program.
To see more details on upload/download, you need to click on this icon with arrows.
Here you see any active processed, download and upload history
and the list of completed tasks.
You can also pause the sync process from this window.
Alternatively, you can go to the main window and click on a pause button.
If you click on the settings' icon, you can add files to the upload queue, or
download the files from the cloud.
You can even stream files directly from the Mega cloud.
I tried to stream a video file.
It worked fine when I streamed it to Firefox, but VLC was not able to stream it.
I do not why.
Maybe it is because of the encryption.
In the settings, you can see the details on how much free space you have.
You can backup your recovery key if you still have not done it, or lost it.
Here you can also enable the desktop notifications and auto-start of the program.
If you use Mega only to backup your files to the cloud, you can disable the auto-start
and open Mega only when you need to backup something.
You can also switch to your native language here.
In the sync tab, you can choose which folders you want to sync.
In the bandwidth tab, you can limit the upload and download speed.
If your transfers do not start, you can also try to disable HTTP as recommended here.
If you use a proxy, you can configure it here.
In the last Advanced tab, you can configure Mega on the cloud side.
You can choose where you want to upload your files.
This is very convenient because you can sync only specific folders from the cloud.
So, I have the folder MEGAsync as my sync folder between devices,
whereas other folders serve as backup.
This is much better than Dropbox which sync everything that is in the cloud.
And you have an option to exclude some file types from syncing if you want.
For example, it doesn't sync any hidden files that start with a dot.
If you need to sync your hidden files, remove this filter.
These were the settings.
You also have a direct option to add a folder to the sync from the main interface.
Here you can also open existing folders that are synchronized.
Now let's have a look at the mobile app, and
in the end, I will show you the command line Mega client.
I tested the app on Android.
The mobile app is mostly similar to the web program.
Obviously, you have all your cloud folder and files.
Then there is an option to save for offline, but I was not able to figure out how it works.
When you click on a file, there is only an option to Download.
Which is technically makes a file available offline, but it appears in your device folder,
not in the offline section of the Mega app.
Anyway it is not a big deal.
A useful option is Camera uploads.
You can enable it to back up all your photos form a phone.
The rest of the options are the same as in the web app.
The only drawback there is no chat option in the mobile client.
The settings are pretty simple.
Good to see that you can enable the pin-cod lock to have an extra security layer.
The mobile app is good and does the job, but it is not an ultimate pack.
Maybe they will add the chat option later and fix the offline option.
Let's see.
Now the command line interface.
The command line program can be useful if you want to use Mega on a server,
where you cannot run graphical apps.
To have a command line interface, you download and install MEGAcmd program.
To start the program run in your terminal: mega-cmd
It welcomes you with this message.
It says that it is a beta program and something may mot work correctly.
You can type help and see all the available commands.
I believe many of these commands are the same as in a standard FTP.
You can list the files with ls.
Change directly with cd.
Download a file with get,
Upload with put.
There are many other options.
I believe if you run a server, you will be able to figure out how to use it.
Well, this is what I wanted to share with you.
Mega seems to be a very good cloud service for a Linux user.
I recommended it to my sister and I started to use it myself.
I also would like to state that it is not sponsored by Mega, in case you thought about that.
Let me know what you think about Mega and if you know a better cloud solution,
please share it in the comments.
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