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A comment on Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on... by galadran on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:12PM (#17603586)
I have a 4TB Hard Drive attached to an OpenWRT router (Rasberry Pi's are also a popular choice). The router exposes a locked down SSH port (SFTP only) through a cheap $5 a month VPS.

I also use Jottacloud [1] who provide unlimited (yes unlimited) storage for 7.5 EUR a month. Based in Norway, they keep an up to date warrant canary.

Client side, I backup to both of these services using Duplicati [2] which offers client side encryption, block level deduplication and excellent integration with Jottacloud and SFTP. For synchronisation, I use Syncthing [3] since I don't want to expose plaintext documents to Jottacloud. All in all, I'm very pleased and it has required no maintainence since I set it up a year ago.

[1] https://www.jottacloud.com/en/

[2] https://www.duplicati.com/

[3] https://syncthing.net/

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Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on... by ioddly on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @04:03PM (#17604441)
I just started experimenting with Syncthing because Dropbox no longer meets my needs.

So far I'm pretty happy and impressed, it's a decentralized piece of software that Just Works (TM). My plan for backups is to spin up a VPS somewhere and have them back it up.

I also love that it can use LAN; I can finally sync up my giant mp3 collection.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on... by JeanMarcS on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @05:53PM (#17605273)
+1 on syncthing.

I have one on my computer, one one our Raspberry Mediabox (with a dedicated drive) and one on a dedicated VS.

New version using inotify really helped the Pi !

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Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on... by balladeer on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:34AM (#17606927)
Syncthing is awesome. My main use of it is to share between my laptop and seedbox. Also if I want to share something with my friends in an unattended manner.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on... by stjoris on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @03:36PM (#17604229)
Jottacloud sounds interesting, how do you integrate with it, doesn't seem to offer any standard API's besides their own CLI.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on... by pragmatick on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:05AM (#17607858)
Not op but apparently he uses Duplicati to upload to jottacloud: https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/05-storage-provid...
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