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> It's now simple. ~> A handful of manual steps you need to remember to do. The only offsite you have is at your parents, and is only "uploaded" every 6 month

by croon 10y ago

> It's now simple. ~> A handful of manual steps you need to remember to do. The only offsite you have is at your parents, and is only "uploaded" every 6 months. Isn't it just better and easier (at least long term) to just use duplicity (or equivalent) and sync your NAS to any backend (Drive/Onedrive/Dropbox/Hubic/etc)? And then just use your NAS as your "true" storage? Then it'll just run until your configuration changes (NAS switch, service discontinued, etc) at which point you reconfigure it once.

setq 10y ago
Yes that 6 months window I decided is ok for me. It might not be for you. If my house burns down, my car burns down and I end up in hospital, losing 6 months of data potentially isn't a major issue. If you make it a conscious scheduled process you know it's working. I'm a relative expert with duplicity (I run a whole pile of stuff in AWS that uses the S3 back end for backups) and it's not a solution I really entirely trust. First you incur the wrath of configuration i.e. the initial ramp up to get it working, then there's the monitoring overhead which isn't trivial as it isn't the quietest bit of software known to man, and finally we have the complexity perspective which introduces a lot more code, network transport etc. Plus it is horribly buggy, particularly with incrementals, metadata and corruption. The same is true with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox which I have used. Edit: comedic timing perhaps, but since I wrote this post I've just got a duplicity failure to deal with...
jrnichols 10y ago
This is why I went with CrashPlan. Backing stuff up to a friend's computer? Free and only limited by their storage. or.. put a box at your friends house with as much storage as you want. Back when I had FIOS (and it was fast & reliable) this is what I did. Put a NUC with a friend, had an external drive, we were each others offsite backup location. Quite handy.

by croon 10y ago

setq 10y ago

Yes that 6 months window I decided is ok for me. It might not be for you. If my house burns down, my car burns down and I end up in hospital, losing 6 months of data potentially isn't a major issue. If you make it a conscious scheduled process you know it's working. I'm a relative expert with duplicity (I run a whole pile of stuff in AWS that uses the S3 back end for backups) and it's not a solution I really entirely trust. First you incur the wrath of configuration i.e. the initial ramp up to get it working, then there's the monitoring overhead which isn't trivial as it isn't the quietest bit of software known to man, and finally we have the complexity perspective which introduces a lot more code, network transport etc. Plus it is horribly buggy, particularly with incrementals, metadata and corruption. The same is true with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox which I have used. Edit: comedic timing perhaps, but since I wrote this post I've just got a duplicity failure to deal with...

jrnichols 10y ago

This is why I went with CrashPlan. Backing stuff up to a friend's computer? Free and only limited by their storage. or.. put a box at your friends house with as much storage as you want. Back when I had FIOS (and it was fast & reliable) this is what I did. Put a NUC with a friend, had an external drive, we were each others offsite backup location. Quite handy.