Any experiences from using Blender and accessing files on the cloud? I’d like the startup file to link to a library stored there, and have all textures and other assets stored there. What about caches?
Also, any specific considerations needed for accessing the cloud from both Windows and Linux? I’d like to be able to store the file on the cloud, get home and continue working with it.
Making everything local and packing all images isn’t a good solution due to file sizes.
I’ve done this with no major problems- I’ve used both Google Drive and a simple network drive for this. I much prefer the network drive, Google Drive is weirdly resource intensive. However, it’s very cheap and it has really excellent backup; it’s also probably your simplest option to set up.
I’ve never actually tried doing caches on the cloud- I can’t think of any reason why this wouldn’t work, but I could be wrong 
If you’ve got the inclination, I’d set up a simple RAID server so you can use your own cloud storage instead of paying for someone else’s. You can find used servers for cheap at https://labgopher.com/ . That’s my plan, eventually.
Thanks. This is my workplace sometime in the future changing to cloud based operations from local servers that doesn’t work well, or at all really, across the globe. So I have no influence on the solution and no way I’m gonna get admin access. I wouldn’t give myself admin access.
Are things like paths (" / " vs " \ ") handled automatically across operating systems? I’d hate it if I have to do “find missing files” every time I switch where I work on a project.
Cloud is a very broad term. Never used G Drive or similar services as a main data storage so can’t really say anything about that. What I imagine is that those kind of services will have data and bandwidth caps, so not really great for bigger projects.
NAS setup on a private server is much more flexible and powerful. Software wise look up Nextcloud and OMV. Both have Samba/CIFS protocol support that is compatible with Windows and Linux. Beware that Samba on Linux can be a pain to set up. Alternatively you can try to connect the same share with Samba on Windows and NFS on Linux. Can’t say how / vs \ will be handled. I don’t have Windows connected to my NAS.
One other alternative is to sync folders between two or more machines. Look up Syncthing for that. I don’t have any problems with syncing files between Linux and Windows machines. The only drawbacks are: needed disk space and synchronization speed. Sending 5MB file is not a problem but pulling 2GB file from other machine will take a while.
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