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Replying to my own comment, because I'm out of the edit time-range and this kind of blew up. If I had to point the discussion of this comment, I'd point it awa
by alexggordon 10y ago
Replying to my own comment, because I'm out of the edit time-range and this kind of blew up.
If I had to point the discussion of this comment, I'd point it away from what I did wrong personally (I know I f*cked up in probably more than one way).
What I learned from this is that there are no situations in which I would personally host a file server of this feature level and control over my documents. I think "all in one" (dropbox/backup/encryption/sharing/file storage) personal solutions like Owncloud try to do too much, and end up with some seriously rough edges that can turn off very large portions of their user base.
I guess the question I raise is, given my experience "can you prove to me that I can absolutely trust you with all my data"?
- thomnottom 10y ago> I guess the question I raise is, given my experience "can you prove to me that I can absolutely trust you with all my data"? But the answer to that is "no". All of the time. No matter who you are asking it about. There is always the possibility of someone - no matter how much you trust them or pay them - screwing up your data. Including yourself.
- notatoad 10y ago>There is always the possibility of someone - no matter how much you trust them or pay them - screwing up your data. Including yourself. Especially yourself. I trust a product with dedicated administrators who do nothing but keep people's data safe to do a much better job than i could ever do myself. I don't want that kind of responsibility when google and dropbox are willing to do it for me for a couple bucks a month.
- alexggordon 10y agoYeah, pretty much summarizes my fears with Owncloud. Not only that, but as mentioned before, I no longer have any desire to manage my own large scale storage (NAS/Raid, really anything), so that compounds my own fears with Owncloud.
- mahyarm 10y agoThis is why you want client side encrypted clients who treat your NAS/Cloud Account/HDD as dumb storage. This way it's easy to immediately verify on your client computer that entire CRUD cycle works fine, and continues to work fine. It also allows you to have simple redundancy, so if your NAS setup fucks up, the cloud account and external hard drive version is still there.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoI dump GPG and Truecrypt files right into my 1TB Dropbox folder. Works fine, $10/month. I'd never go back to managing my own NAS locally.
- alexggordon 10y agoHave you tried out dropbox infinite yet with that setup?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoNot yet, although its on my TODO list.
- mahyarm 10y agoI do something similar too, but I have around 1TB of data, so a full restoration will be painful. Remembering to plug in an external hard drive is irritating so I want to get a NAS that my laptop auto connects to, like time machine. What do you think?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoTime Machine would work. Backblaze.com is an option as well ($5/month for unlimited storage, they'll backup an external drive) if you're looking for offsite backups.
- simonebrunozzi 10y agoExactly this.