Re:Ask HN: How should I back up data on devices if I'm not s...
by web007 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:51PM
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You have Dropbox and it's no-config required. What's wrong with that? Is it that you have to configure it for it to do what you want, and you don't want to take the time to do so?
You don't want to set up a VPS, even though I mentioned nothing about one. I said to buy an appliance, same as a Time Capsule or whatever that Apple thing used to be called.
You think rsync+SSH+snapshot is complicated, but you don't know that Time Machine is exactly that, just hidden from you so if anything goes wrong it's a black box that you can't recover from.
You think rsync is too much scripting - what are you trying to do that requires scripting beyond `rsync -aP src dest`?
How so? Dropbox is zero config install for linux.
> Are pretty much mutually exclusive. If you want it to be powerful you'll need to do the work to configure it.
I never said zero config, I said easy to configure. Firefox has plenty of configuration nobs, but it's easy to configure it.
> What you really want is rsync over SSH to a ZFS volume with encryption enabled, or some other CoW filesystem that lets you do snapshots and access them online.
No because that's very complicated. I've done it in the past, and just the fact I have to manage a VPS to do so is more than what I want to do.
I've used rsync as well, it's again, too much scripting, meaning to much margin for errors.
Apple Time machine for linux is what I want, with remote capabilities.