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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 azinman2 »

TheSmiddy wrote: post #84
azinman2 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My issue with tarsnap vs Dropbox is entirely workflow. Right now I can treat my Dropbox effectively as an external drive that happens to live on my file system by making everything selectively synced. If I want something backed up, I just drag it into that folder. But once it’s backed up I can turn on selective sync and free up my disk space. Backup of personal data is often a 1-way endeavor — here’s a dump of photos…

If you're transfering data to a backup service and then deleting it locally that's not backup, that's just cloud storage.

It’s the best of both worlds. I can selectively move things off and seamlessly have them move back.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by azinman2 »

ajmadesc wrote: post #136
azinman2 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My issue with tarsnap vs Dropbox is entirely workflow. Right now I can treat my Dropbox effectively as an external drive that happens to live on my file system by making everything selectively synced. If I want something backed up, I just drag it into that folder. But once it’s backed up I can turn on selective sync and free up my disk space. Backup of personal data is often a 1-way endeavor — here’s a dump of photos…

How do you make them sync?

Which “them”?

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by ForHackernews »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #132
jclulow wrote: post #105

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Oh my word, that article on tarsnap is a frightful bore. I was a tarsnap customer and I thought it was great. If Colin is happy running it more like a utility than a rapacious VC-backed hyper-growth racket, I'm not sure why that is bad. The only reason I stopped being a customer was because another rapacious racket of a business, Comcast, introduced miniscule but enforced data caps in my area, so online backups aren'…

> If Colin is happy running it more like a utility than a rapacious VC-backed hyper-growth racket, I'm not sure why that is bad. I don't doubt your happiness, but I confess that I'm having trouble reconciling "running it more like a utility" with charging 25¢/GB per month for storage. That is just staggeringly high. What I'm paying $6/month for with Arq would be over $160/month if I were using Tarsnap, and I'm gettin…

The whole point of a backup service is that most of the time you don't need it at all, but when you do need it you really need it. From that perspective, it's like paying for insurance.

I'm not a tarsnap customer, but I think what you're paying for is a service built by a literal obsessive genius that will 100% work when the chips are down.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by tornato7 »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #145
ww520 wrote: post #97

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

Another Syncthing fan here. The software is great. But I used DO spaces for storage and it's pricy. One of my "to do" lists for 2021 is find a cheaper storage solution and move my backups over.

Wasabi is about the cheapest out there. $5/TB/mo with no bandwidth charges. Backblaze is close in pricing and has a better reputation. I use both.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by chrissnell »

nsomaru wrote: post #126
chrissnell wrote: post #79

I must say, I concur with this person’s assessment of the Goog-exit feeling. I ditched GMail for Fastmail and my own domain last week. I had been putting this off for years because it seemed like such a massive pain in the ass and I was afraid that I would just end up with two email services. In the end, it took me one evening to update every service that I cared about to use my new address. The rest (mostly e-commer…

Been thinking seriously about this. Do you just inform your contacts with an auto responder? How long do you intend to keep the gmail account?

I didn't do any auto-responders. Frankly, email is kind of dead for p2p comms with friends so there's not many people to inform. Most difficult part I've encountered was getting my dad, who is old, on board. He keeps emailing me at my GMail.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by marcus_holmes »

tornato7 wrote: post #194
marcus_holmes wrote: post #145

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Another Syncthing fan here. The software is great. But I used DO spaces for storage and it's pricy. One of my "to do" lists for 2021 is find a cheaper storage solution and move my backups over.

Wasabi is about the cheapest out there. $5/TB/mo with no bandwidth charges. Backblaze is close in pricing and has a better reputation. I use both.

Thanks I'll check them out :)

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by SamReidHughes »

xchaotic wrote: post #185
eitland wrote: post #133

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Does it matter?

Looks like the brother just does the merges? (which are mostly automatic) so IMO best it matters because it's still mostly a one man, or at least a one family operation - i.e not very resilient to random acts of nature (which backups are supposed to protect from)

Having them be two brothers makes for a lower business continuity risk than having it be a business owner + 1 random employee.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by luord »

whoopdedo wrote: post #107
homedrive wrote: post #56

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You can host Nextcloud at your home using something like NextcloudPi+DDNS ( https://nextcloudpi.com ) or HomeDrive ( https://homedrive.io , which has ngrok-ish end-to-end tunnels integrated), and the monthly cost would be almost $0. :)

I recently set up Nginx on a DO droplet as a reverse proxy to my home server over Wireguard. It's not $0 but it doesn't directly expose my home IP. And I have an authoritative resolver on the LAN so local clients go directly to the private address.

I would also really like to know how you set this up.

I've been thinking about this kind of setup for my and my family's data, at least.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by tomnipotent »

eitland wrote: post #133
tomnipotent wrote: post #129

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The other committer is his brother.

Does it matter?

Yes. Having family help out on a 1-man show is an entirely different beast than hiring a full-time employee with wages, taxes, and healthcare. One of these two is a life-long trusted human that you've shared numerous life experiences with, the other is not.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by imagica »

hyperdimension wrote: post #130
imagica wrote: post #110

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I wish things turn around and smaller shops make a comeback. Big is not always better, in fact the service is almost always an afterthought.

"But that won't scale!"

Lots of little ones would scale. And lots of jobs. It worked before...
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