It’s like you can’t win with these cloud backup services – whether it’s your whole system or just photos. No matter which one you pick, somebody keeps moving the goalposts. New ones are coming up, old ones are disappearing, the quotas keep changing, the apps work in strange ways and it just becomes too much hassle to keep up with it all and keep researching which service is going to give you what you need every time you’re forced to switch from one you’ve been using happily for years to something completely new and unknown. And while remote storage is part of the whole 3-2-1 backup system, it doesn’t necessarily need to be cloud storage. At least, not one of the commercial solutions that’s just hosted on some random computer somewhere in the world. Personally, I’ve always been inclined to remote store on my own computer at a friend or relative’s house. I back up to that remote location voer the Internet, I know it’s going to be good for as long as I need it to be, I can upgrade it whenever I want for a one-off cost and there’s no annual or monthly subscription service. And if the worst happens and I lose everything here, I know I can just go over to their place, grab the drives and I’ve instantly got everything ready to copy over to fresh drives. And there are plenty of software options out there now to make this happen. Resilio Sync (free or subscription) and Syncthing (free and open source with commercial support available) are a couple of good places to start. [via PetaPixel]
