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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by azinman2 on Monday January 25, 2021 @07:36PM (#25910933)
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 I scanned that I don’t need to look at anytime soon. But with tarsnap I can’t do that, nor can I then have the ease of browsing to the file and just opening it while it transparently downloads on demand.

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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by TheSmiddy on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:51PM (#25911475)
If you're transfering data to a backup service and then deleting it locally that's not backup, that's just cloud storage.
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by azinman2 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:35PM (#25918745)
It’s the best of both worlds. I can selectively move things off and seamlessly have them move back.
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by ajmadesc on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:36AM (#25913452)
How do you make them sync?
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by azinman2 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:36PM (#25918755)
Which “them”?
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