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Exactly, if cloud cannot be trusted I might as well buy a synology nas and drop at a family member's home.
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
Exactly, if cloud cannot be trusted I might as well buy a synology nas and drop at a family member's home.
- ghaff 4y agoHaving a spare hard drive that you occasionally sync up and drop off at a family member's house in addition to other backup strategies is indeed a decent idea. However, I'm guessing that--if you're anything like me--you get lazy about refreshing it and, if something happens, you realize it's been a year since you did a fresh backup. A cloud provider backup (as opposed to sync) is a good belt-and-suspenders cheap insurance backstop to local backups that you hopefully never need. I have local Time Machine and Synology NAS but I also pay Backblaze a nominal amount. Companies were paying Iron Mountain large sums of money before there was a cloud.
- btgeekboy 4y agoThe idea behind dropping a Synology off would be that you could sync to it remotely, so you don’t have to be lazy about refreshing it. Though online backups have their own risks (ransomware).