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Syncing and backing up personal data is still too hard
- dcreemer 9y agoThis isn’t high art, but perhaps it will be useful to others. Getting my family data reasonably well backed up and synchronized between our many devices was a harder problem that I expected it to be.
- mankash666 9y agoLooking at the final diagram in the article, though you've achieved your aim of redundant backup, it certainly ISN'T any simpler. If anything, it's a LOT more complex than simply buying dropbox storage and dumping everything there.
- dcreemer 9y agotrue -- it's more complicated. However I wanted encrypted at rest documents (and that's hard with Dropbox), and I need backup - not just sync, so Dropbox can only provide half the solution. There's an opportunity for someone here...