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Indeed, I think that having a shared keychain is very important. I have heard of people planned to do such a thing, but never did before it was too late. Sortin
by danieldk 11y ago
Indeed, I think that having a shared keychain is very important. I have heard of people planned to do such a thing, but never did before it was too late. Sorting out the digital life off- and online will be a mess without it. Do it today.
We have also been moving stuff out of data silos and are moving back to plain old files where possible. E.g. administrative stuff we share using Bittorrent Sync (because it is peer to peer and encrypted) and we store photos in Dropbox (because they are easier to share with family that way). We considered doing everything with BTSync, but on iOS the interface is too difficult for non tech-savvy family.
- batou 11y agoI tried to sync for several years and it never worked. I tried everything. Eventually we just moved to using one computer and sharing it. Its not healthy to spend all the time on it anyway. Having a pooled machine has a number of social benefits as well. So we have a single laptop, three smartphones (my oldest daughter has one as well) and they're all handed in weekly to me for data extraction and archival. The laptop is a Lenovo X201 so it can go anywhere and we have a docking station and full desktop setup if you need anything a little more healthy to use.
- walterbell 11y agoDid you consider something like a Synology NAS, which has free mobile apps for syncing?
- batou 11y agoYes. I had one. It died suddenly and left me with a £400 bill for a new one. Fortunately I backed up the NAS to an external disk but from this and other experiences, I've come to a general rule: the reliability of a backup system is inversely proportional to the number of moving parts Hence why I use beyond compare to manually sync files to two physical mediums from the master copy on my laptop. One encrypted USB stick I carry on me at all times and one hard disk that lives in a fire safe.
- oracuk 11y agoMoving hard disks back and forth to my fire safe is a pain. A hardened usb disk that is itself fire-rated. That I would buy.
- batou 11y agoYou would need one with the mass of a fire safe which somewhat nullifies the point.
- icebraining 11y agoSome companies sell fire-safe & waterproof HD enclosures which you can use without moving the disks.
- JosephRedfern 11y agoHow about a fire-safe with a female USB port on the outside, and a male USB port on the inside - both connected? That would be cool.
- TheLoneWolfling 11y agoIt's hard to make anything small fire-rated, due to thermal inertia (or rather, the lack thereof). I'm surprised I haven't seen a NAS with the hard drive enclosure fire-rated.