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Why Personal Cloud Storage is so bad on Linux? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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The main cloud services don't even work natively (GoogleDrive, OneDrive, iCloud) basically the only mainstream choice is Dropbox. I tried to use Google Drive in Mint, and it's a pain to get it to work, and usually it stops working after computer restarts.

Someone has a recommendation about how to handle these services?

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[–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

A huge part of disaster recovery is storing things in separate geographic locations. That's not easily don't with self hosting. If all my stuff is on a file server at my house and my house burns down then I've lost all my files.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    While this is true, you can have a remote backup service that isn't the type of cloud storage the OP seems to want (that is, which isn't designed for editing individual files on the fly on the remote server, or synchronizing between devices). They're similar, but not the same.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I'm mostly talking about the "somebody else's computer" part in the comment I replied to. I don't think it's very feasible. I think self hosting stuff from home is awesome and think it's a culture more folks should check out, but to really have a proper backup of files they need to be stored in multiple different physical locations and that's not something that's cost effective for most folks. What you're talking about is still "someone else's computer" so not different from the comment above.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    A hard drive in a bank vault is separated enough that nothing short of a nuke will destroy every copy of your data at the same time.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    @JackbyDev @besbin my personal solution for this is an encrypted 16tb external storage drive I keep in my car. A copy of my server drive is made once a week. not perfect solution but doesn't require much effort on my part

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I walk through the woods on one side of my house, there is a shovel behind some trees I’ve marked. Then I go back to my house, down the other side of my property until I get to the river. Then I dig in the river bank until I get to a plastic bag. Double wrapped of course.

    Inside the plastic bag?.. a collection of 1gb USB thumb drives and a note pad.

    In the note pad?.. an index cataloguing what is backed up on each thumb drive.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Where do you keep your car?

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