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Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by avsteele »

You can self host syncing service pretty easily:

  1) Get a Synology NAS. 
  2) Install the 'Synology Drive' package
  3) set up 'Quickconnect' (~DDNS)
  4) Remote backup can be though a number of providers (e.g. Backblaze) for cheap
No monthly fees. No domain needed. Storage is as cheap as the HDD's you stock it with. Your hardware and all your files are in your own house. Everything on BlackBlaze can be encrypted. You can set it up all through a webpage-based-GUI.

Technical, non-experts in computing stuff can do this. Not quite simple enough for the general public though.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/drive

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by JoeCianflone »

JeffDClark wrote: post #90

I tried, and tried to use Spaces for image hosting related to a site that I am building but it never worked for me. DigitalOcean support was responsive but useless. I got the same basic response over and over again for days on end. I did finally get a response acking my problem and that it would be assigned to an Engineer. The ticket was then closed the next day with no further comment. I re-opened it and asked about…

That’s crazy. I’m using spaces on several projects and never had so much as a blip from them. If you don’t mind what was the showstopper issue for you?

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by CharlesW »

avsteele wrote: post #91

You can self host syncing service pretty easily: 1) Get a Synology NAS. 2) Install the 'Synology Drive' package 3) set up 'Quickconnect' (~DDNS) 4) Remote backup can be though a number of providers (e.g. Backblaze) for cheap No monthly fees. No domain needed. Storage is as cheap as the HDD's you stock it with. Your hardware and all your files are in your own house. Everything on BlackBlaze can be encrypted. You can s…

QNAP's Qsync is their file sync service for QNAP NAS owners.

https://www.qnap.com/en/utilities/essentials

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by JeffDClark »

JoeCianflone wrote: post #92
JeffDClark wrote: post #90

I tried, and tried to use Spaces for image hosting related to a site that I am building but it never worked for me. DigitalOcean support was responsive but useless. I got the same basic response over and over again for days on end. I did finally get a response acking my problem and that it would be assigned to an Engineer. The ticket was then closed the next day with no further comment. I re-opened it and asked about…

That’s crazy. I’m using spaces on several projects and never had so much as a blip from them. If you don’t mind what was the showstopper issue for you?

Erroneous 503s. I would get a 503 on every call. Uploading a single file with a single call would immediately 503. I never once got a successful upload. I simply switched the endpoint URL and credentials over to AWS S3 and it worked first time so it was not my code (though I suppose it could have been an issue in the library AWS's node S3 client). My theory was the request was somehow malformed based on what DO was expecting and it was returning a 503 rather than a 400. But the request did work with S3.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

#96

Post by hyperion2010 »

jmartrican wrote: post #86

Once I "git reset --hard" the wrong repo and lost a lot of code. Had to use Dropbox's rollback feature to get it all back. Was not the first time Dropbox saved my butt. For me, a comparable alternative would need to have the same rollback features.

git reflog?

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

#97

Post by ww520 »

paxys wrote: post #39

There is a lot of open source file sync software out there (ownCloud, NextCloud, Seafile, Syncthing, ...) that would be much better suited for a self-hosted Dropbox replacement than a single bash script. You are many orders of magnitude more likely to lose your data due to a code bug or unstable network than deplatforming. I looked into setting up something of the sort for myself a little while ago, but unfortunately…

Yes. Been using Syncthing and it's been great. Only down side is there's no iOS port.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

#98

Post by jscholes »

> To use this on Windows I suggest using Subsystem for Linux or Cygwin.

Unless you live inside these environments, an easier option would be rclone[1]. I use it on a regular basis to sync large loads to Digital Ocean Spaces, including its bandwidth limiting schedule to avoid saturating the residential uplink at inconvenient times.

[1] https://rclone.org

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

#99

Post by arcbyte »

CharlesW wrote: post #93
avsteele wrote: post #91

You can self host syncing service pretty easily: 1) Get a Synology NAS. 2) Install the 'Synology Drive' package 3) set up 'Quickconnect' (~DDNS) 4) Remote backup can be though a number of providers (e.g. Backblaze) for cheap No monthly fees. No domain needed. Storage is as cheap as the HDD's you stock it with. Your hardware and all your files are in your own house. Everything on BlackBlaze can be encrypted. You can s…

QNAP's Qsync is their file sync service for QNAP NAS owners. https://www.qnap.com/en/utilities/essentials

This is what I use and I love it. Still working out what I want to do for backing it up to the cloud though. It has a very easy built on way to do that too, but im trying to figure out how "trust no one" I am with encryption and what exactly I really want to pay to keep around forever.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

#100

Post by arsome »

jph wrote: post #13

You wrote about deplatforming-- heads up that DigitalOcean does deplatform people. I have direct firsthand knowledge of DigitalOcean deplatforming a security disclosure professional reporting a root breach bug. For your secure backups, I can suggest Tarsnap by Colin Percival, who's a security expert and a frequent contributor on Hacker News. I don't get anything for recommending Tarsnap; I'm just a customer. https://…

As tarsnap is run by a single person, it seems hard to suggest it to serious businesses due to the inherent risks there as well as the extremely high storage costs and difficult cleanup procedures compared to competing tools. I tend to prefer solutions like restic + B2 for their price and support, where you at least have a larger company behind the storage backend, you could even directly use it with S3 and it'd still be cheaper than Tarsnap.

Decent write up on the cryptography in restic here: https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/

Some tarsnap issues detailed here: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/

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