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Apple has iCloud natively that works mostly fine
by nusl 3y ago
Apple has iCloud natively that works mostly fine
- skydhash 3y agoiCould is for syncing, not backup. Handy when you have multiple devices, but you should invest in a 3-2-1 solution. (which can be done easily by buying an external drive, and some space on another cloud provider). For better retention, get some software that can do snapshots.
- nusl 3y agoYeah. Backups are quite hard to maintain. Hetzner storage boxes are pretty good from what I’ve found. They get backed up and are easily available
- asdff 3y ago2tb for $120 a year for the rest of your life. You might as well be paying the mob.
- nusl 3y agoPerhaps. But it’s maybe cheaper than maintaining hardware life-term yourself. Disregarding control of your data
- asdff 3y agoIt is not at all cheaper and there's hardly any maintenance involved. In ten years you've spent $1200 on the same 2tb. You can get a 2tb portable SSD for about $100. You could have 20tb of storage amassed by then that you can either use outright or replace older drives with, assuming current prices somehow hold for 10 years.
- daft_pink 3y agoThe issue is... how do you backup iCloud when it gets larger than your mac's hard drive, because of the massive number of photos you took on your iPhone?
- nusl 3y agoI’m not too sure. There exist tools that can export data so perhaps that process can be used. Otherwise, you probably need to figure it out one way or another. Knowing myself, I would destroy my own data with accidental deletion or removing a key disk before Apple does.