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My biggest problem with Syncthing is that I don't just want sync, I want a kind of backup built in as well, which Syncthing doesn't do (no support for cloud sto
by Veratyr 12y ago
My biggest problem with Syncthing is that I don't just want sync, I want a kind of backup built in as well, which Syncthing doesn't do (no support for cloud storage or zero knowledge storage hosts).
At the moment I'm paying for SpiderOak, which does this but another open source alternative that's getting there is Syncany[0], which supports a variety of cloud providers through plugins, versions all files and encrypts data.
There's also git-annex but its plugins aren't always high quality and usability is... Challenging.
[0] https://www.syncany.org/ https://www.syncany.org/
- rsync 12y agosyncany supports plain old SFTP, so you can back it up to rsync.net. Ask about the HN Readers discount...
- Veratyr 12y agorsync.net looks like a great service but it's just not really worth it to me at the moment, I just have too much data for it to be price effective. With 800GB of data, I can send it to: - SpiderOak: $130/year (1c/GB) - Google Drive: $10/month (1c/GB) - Dropbox $10/month (1c/GB) - OneDrive $7/month (1c/GB) - Amazon S3 $24/month (3c/GB) - Google Cloud Storage $16/$8/month (2c/GB standard or 1c/GB Nearline) - Rsync.net $160/month (20c/GB) And that's not even taking the backup providers into account. I definitely see where rsync.net would shine for business users because it looks like you have great support but for a regular guy who wants to backup his few hundred GB of photos and sync some files it doesn't make much sense.