Cloud storage

Is there any cloud services that operate as more of an online external drive, where you can just drag stuff? Dropbox is useless because you initially need everything to be copied to your synced Dropbox file on your c drive, so there is no simple way to move my music folder, which is bigger than my c drive, from my d drive

Mega might work

with google drive you can choose which directories sync locally. it appears you can do the same thing with dropbox.

dropbox pro also has 'smart sync':

  On 10/23/2018 at 2:52 PM, xxx said:

I wanted something similar but the fees are quite salty as of now. My digital life is around 2.5 TB currently that I keep backed up on 2 4TB WD Passport drives. I do not like this because I've seen enough external HDs in my life shit the bed to know that it's just a matter of time. Cloud services by the greats (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc) would be around $100 USD a month for my needs. I'm posting here because maybe someone has a better lead on something. I love Google Drive but 15 GB is softball--need 2,000x that

2tb at Amazon (Amazon Drive) is “only” $100 a year. That’s what I have and I’m happy with it

get a NAS. i have a synology 2bay 216j. was maybe 130 bucks plus 2 3GB red WD drives. ok so thats a little bit up front but it works like a charm and there are no fees after that/ has all my music (on my D drive) synced, and I drag and drop anything I want, and i put every simpsons episode on there. automatically adds metadata. combined with my apple tv (or any apple tv) you can stream any video / movie / music you have. actually the FLACs go straight to my marantz via DNLA. and of course everything is accessible via web browser. plus you're not giving your money and data to amazon

  On 10/24/2018 at 5:30 AM, dr lopez said:

get a NAS. i have a synology 2bay 216j. was maybe 130 bucks plus 2 3GB red WD drives. ok so thats a little bit up front but it works like a charm and there are no fees after that/ has all my music (on my D drive) synced, and I drag and drop anything I want, and i put every simpsons episode on there. automatically adds metadata. combined with my apple tv (or any apple tv) you can stream any video / movie / music you have. actually the FLACs go straight to my marantz via DNLA. and of course everything is accessible via web browser. plus you're not giving your money and data to amazon

WOW!!! 2 3GB red WD drives..

I think dlo meant tb  

  On 10/24/2018 at 8:42 AM, iococoi said:

 

  On 10/24/2018 at 5:30 AM, dr lopez said:

 

  On 10/24/2018 at 5:30 AM, dr lopez said:

get a NAS. i have a synology 2bay 216j. was maybe 130 bucks plus 2 3GB red WD drives. ok so thats a little bit up front but it works like a charm and there are no fees after that/ has all my music (on my D drive) synced, and I drag and drop anything I want, and i put every simpsons episode on there. automatically adds metadata. combined with my apple tv (or any apple tv) you can stream any video / movie / music you have. actually the FLACs go straight to my marantz via DNLA. and of course everything is accessible via web browser. plus you're not giving your money and data to amazon

So are the two 3TB drives mirrored (e.g., drive 1 is backed up to drive 2)? Do you back it up to an external source like a cloud service or another NAS?

If someone broke into your house and stole that drive, or your home suffered a natural disaster, you would lose all of that in a heartbeat.

Not to mention, it has been found statistically that odd numbered drives (e.g., 3, 6, 9, etc.) have higher failure rates than even numbered drives.

That being said, if what's on there is not critically important (e.g., family photos of which there are no backups elsewhere, etc.), then at least at a minimum mirroring the drives is the smartest thing in that scenario to do.

Owncloud / Nextcloud

Both also have docker files, so you deploy your own instance to a server someplace.

  On 10/24/2018 at 4:16 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 10/24/2018 at 5:30 AM, dr lopez said:

get a NAS. i have a synology 2bay 216j. was maybe 130 bucks plus 2 3GB red WD drives. ok so thats a little bit up front but it works like a charm and there are no fees after that/ has all my music (on my D drive) synced, and I drag and drop anything I want, and i put every simpsons episode on there. automatically adds metadata. combined with my apple tv (or any apple tv) you can stream any video / movie / music you have. actually the FLACs go straight to my marantz via DNLA. and of course everything is accessible via web browser. plus you're not giving your money and data to amazon

So are the two 3TB drives mirrored (e.g., drive 1 is backed up to drive 2)? Do you back it up to an external source like a cloud service or another NAS?

 

If someone broke into your house and stole that drive, or your home suffered a natural disaster, you would lose all of that in a heartbeat.

 

Not to mention, it has been found statistically that odd numbered drives (e.g., 3, 6, 9, etc.) have higher failure rates than even numbered drives.

 

That being said, if what's on there is not critically important (e.g., family photos of which there are no backups elsewhere, etc.), then at least at a minimum mirroring the drives is the smartest thing in that scenario to do.

Yes the drives are Mirrored. The media folder (pics, movies, music, porno) is a copy of my E: drive on my PC. so there are 3 copies. you are correct in that if my apt had a fire I would be done for. But if my apt had a fire my digital files would be the last thing I cared about. My exceptional furniture and vinyl would be a bigger issue

I have a logical volume of a couple of tb hdds on my fedora server. These are shared via samba and are accessible anywhere I go with internet. I can ssh in and play music for my cat via cmus.

I suppose the ultimate form of redundancy would be some kind of decentralized cloud data service to futureproof all your digital files. But still, cold storage will outlive internet fallout