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I wonder if now it is good time to start a service which helps you host all important stuff - mail, picture books, contacts - and so on with offline backups whi

by iamsb 7y ago

I wonder if now it is good time to start a service which helps you host all important stuff - mail, picture books, contacts - and so on with offline backups which are under your control. Essentially ship me a tape every 6 months or so which has all my content, encrypted at rest.

mholt 7y ago
On it! :) See my comment on this page, would love to have more maintainers than just myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166539 - I've been using that for my stuff for about 6 months now.
- iamsb 7y ago
  I will check it out.
m-p-3 7y ago
I'm considering Librem One, I hope their cloud storage is picture-friendly, and easy to backup.
- iamsb 7y ago
  It is an interesting idea. Few things I am worried about is - US & China have regressive laws when it comes to internet - patriot act for example. So ideally I dont want my data in someone else's hands who might be bound by laws that I am not aware of. With the way twitter is censoring content of Indian right wing, I am now a days extremely paranoid about using any internet based services, which includes librem.
dredds 7y ago
Not sure about export, but linked recently on HN. (Android app available) https://bloom.sh https://bloom.sh
- iamsb 7y ago
  See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20180775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20180775. Not sure yet another web based service is the answer here I am afraid.
andrewmunsell 7y ago
I've been using NextCloud hosted on my personal NAS, and recently even switched over to using a todo manager that uses CalDAV so I can use my NextCloud server for personal task management. Backups are done through restic to a couple cloud providers, and honestly this is the hardest part to get user friendly because there's no UI (yes, I know Relica exists but I don't want to pay monthly for it and use my own storage). At this point everything (files & photos, calendar, contacts) but my email (which is with FastMail) is self hosted or backed up on my NAS (and consequently, the cloud storage backup). Home automation is also all done through Home Assistant and local Z-Wave devices (I used SmartThings way back when, but switched to HA). Though it's not easy enough for non-tech-literate people to do, I think it's close. Maybe a hosted NextCloud instance + auto backups would be good enough for most people.
- iamsb 7y ago
  This is an interesting idea. Do you have longer form post which explains how someone can set this up? Also how do you protect your NAS over the internet? I am not extremely concerned about security, but some network layer security will be good to have. I will be keen to know more about your setup.

by iamsb 7y ago

mholt 7y ago

On it! :) See my comment on this page, would love to have more maintainers than just myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166539 - I've been using that for my stuff for about 6 months now.

iamsb 7y ago
I will check it out.

m-p-3 7y ago

I'm considering Librem One, I hope their cloud storage is picture-friendly, and easy to backup.

iamsb 7y ago
It is an interesting idea. Few things I am worried about is - US & China have regressive laws when it comes to internet - patriot act for example. So ideally I dont want my data in someone else's hands who might be bound by laws that I am not aware of. With the way twitter is censoring content of Indian right wing, I am now a days extremely paranoid about using any internet based services, which includes librem.

dredds 7y ago

Not sure about export, but linked recently on HN. (Android app available) https://bloom.sh https://bloom.sh

iamsb 7y ago
See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20180775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20180775. Not sure yet another web based service is the answer here I am afraid.

andrewmunsell 7y ago

I've been using NextCloud hosted on my personal NAS, and recently even switched over to using a todo manager that uses CalDAV so I can use my NextCloud server for personal task management. Backups are done through restic to a couple cloud providers, and honestly this is the hardest part to get user friendly because there's no UI (yes, I know Relica exists but I don't want to pay monthly for it and use my own storage). At this point everything (files & photos, calendar, contacts) but my email (which is with FastMail) is self hosted or backed up on my NAS (and consequently, the cloud storage backup). Home automation is also all done through Home Assistant and local Z-Wave devices (I used SmartThings way back when, but switched to HA). Though it's not easy enough for non-tech-literate people to do, I think it's close. Maybe a hosted NextCloud instance + auto backups would be good enough for most people.

iamsb 7y ago
This is an interesting idea. Do you have longer form post which explains how someone can set this up? Also how do you protect your NAS over the internet? I am not extremely concerned about security, but some network layer security will be good to have. I will be keen to know more about your setup.