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Be me, self host my own cloud drive. No fees, no surprises, infinitely scalable, insanely fast local backups.

• timcavel 3y ago
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• shadowgovt 3y ago
  I'm sure everyone reading Hacker News can cobble something together in a weekend or two or knows someone who can. What should the rest of the world do? (Also, my hats off to you that you're seeing "no surprises." So you never discovered your backup machine has a flaky wifi card or bad Ethernet jack? Never had bit-rot or errors on your backing store, or are you just not detecting them until it's too late? You're testing your local backups regularly to make sure there isn't a script error that means none of those bits can actually be restored? And are you backing up offsite so when your residence burns down you still have your backups? Lots of us are "backing up" using ad-hoc bespoke solutions that we will discover were broken only when we need them.)
  • vachina 3y ago
    > What should the rest of the world do? Educate and help those who do not know? I helped setup my cousin’s NAS and gave it a subdomain. What i meant by no surprises is: the backend and front end stays the same forever, short of me manually updating it. My server and their apps, will not suddenly lose functionality or have cruft added because someone in Mountain View deems so. Key to making this work is keeping things simple. Meaning no container or any burying of my data under any layer of abstraction. My files are laid bare on the platter, making it very portable because any application that does file system operation can immediately operate on my files. Unlike the clusterfuck that is owncloud. Every quarter I do an incremental offline backup of all the drives in the NAS, to address all the issues you mentioned.