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What I ended up doing is set up NetDrive.. It kind of does the same thing, except you still need a Plex server to play the media on your Google Drive... You'll also need a decently fast internet connection to upload, and also download/stream the media from your google drive.. I have fios and an unlimited storage account through my old college.. It's awesome.

Unfortunately, I realized AFTER I bought a plex lifetime subscription that they were no longer doing the plex cloud thing.. Oh well, I've been using plex for years and don't mind giving them that money..

I just found out of curiosity a perfect solution. https://www.netdrive.net/ its a software that lets you use any or most cloud storage providers and autolock any type of files. Also one of the cheapest storage providers is wasabi 6 USD for every 1Tb.

If you need lots of storage I would recommend to host it yourself locally and use something like zerotier to connect all computers as if they were in a local network.

This is how it works. You’re not supposed to be able to just browse the Hyper Backup destination and pull files out that way.

To do this without a Synology available you will need to use “Hyper Backup Explorer” which is a desktop tool you can download from Synologys website.

The trouble here is that Hyper Backup Explorer cannot connect directly to any cloud service other than Synology C2, honestly a pretty big gap in the whole setup. I’ve seen that some have had success with Amazon Drive by mounting the destination with NetDrive and pointing Hyper Backup Explorer to that so they don’t need to download the entire backup just to recover one file, you might be able to do something similar with with NetDrive which looks like it supports Backblaze. I’d suggest you look in to this option and try it out: https://www.netdrive.net/wiki/netdrive/application-manual/add-configure-drive/backblaze-b2-config/_source/

Honestly the best way to do it is get another Synology device, install Hyper Backup and point it to your Backblaze bucket so you can recover files directly.

> alternatives to this SFTP extension

I like using NetDrive. It isn't free, it has had occasional bugs related to sftp/scp. But when it is working it works better then any text-editor based sftp/scp plugin. Also, it presents your sftp/scp server as a drive letter in Windows so you can just use explorer, or anything you want. You aren't limited to just vscode or whatever.

AFAIK it doesn't have any file masking options though.

i don't sync, I simply map the seedbox as a network drive with Netdrive. Makes it easy to access both watch folder and downloaded files.

(On Linux I use sshfs for the same purpose, there is sshfs for windows but last time I tried it, it was very unstable. Netdrive just works, but it's a few bucks.

Either go use Linux and plexdrive or stay on Windows and pay for Netdrive.

It can map your Google Drive to a drive letter in windows, just use Netdrive 3 because Netdrive 2 is slow and hits the API ban pretty fast. They fixed that in Netdrive 3.