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>Why pay for Dropbox when you can use your very own box with far more storage for far less money? Managing backups and data integrity is no joke. Almost everyo
by fnord123 6y ago
>Why pay for Dropbox when you can use your very own box with far more storage for far less money?
Managing backups and data integrity is no joke. Almost everyone does a shit job and don't know it until the data is gone.
- vetinari 6y agoWe as a family run a bunch of Synology NASes and back-up to each other (with different households we get geographical distribution). Running Synology-provided apps Drive (syncing and backing up computers to NAS), Hyperbackup (backing up from one NAS to another) and Moments (takes care of photos from cellphones) has been very simple and does everything we need. All that just for few hundreds of euros; all data are private and nobody is trying to constantly upsell or trying to figure out how to monetize something taken for granted until now.
- Yetanfou 6y ago...as is shown time and time again when some commercial entity fesses up to having lost a few TB of user data, Canon being the latest (?) example of such. If you have family or friends you can make a deal with them: you get to hang a backup storage device off their network, they get to do the same on your network. Send encrypted backups and your data should be safe, and so should theirs. Problem solved, everyone happy and nobody gets to mine your data.