OT: Home backup strategy - NAS, DAS, Time Machine

[9tubes]

Originally Posted by 9tubes

Time machine to a 2-bay Synology, plus Backblaze. Just in case of ransomware I also do a full drive clone twice per month to an external drive and then disconnect it.

Originally Posted by .RJ

What does the cloud storage cost you?

$100/yr unlimited storage as I recall. Check the site.

[tylercheung]

I had an old PC motherboard I put into a Fractal Design Node 304 chassis and installed TrueNAS OS and some drives on it. Kind of a convoluted way of getting to a Synology.

Offsite/online backups via backblaze

[Alistair]

Related question… I’m all iOS at home (no PC, no Mac). Is there a good solution for backing up photos and iCloud Drive to a NAS? Already have extended iCloud storage online, but would like to add something local.

[foo_fighter]

Depends how much experience you have but icloudpd in a docker container works well for photos. PhotoSync and Immich also work well for photos.

Originally Posted by Alistair

Related question… I’m all iOS at home (no PC, no Mac). Is there a good solution for backing up photos and iCloud Drive to a NAS? Already have extended iCloud storage online, but would like to add something local.

[Alistair]

Originally Posted by foo_fighter

Depends how much experience you have but icloudpd in a docker container works well for photos. PhotoSync and Immich also work well for photos.

Where am I going to run the docker container? No Mac or PC. Or would it run in the NAS (which means a more expensive NAS, but that might be ok)? The doc says it just does the photos library - is there anything similar to do the iCloud Drive (tax docs, etc)?

[foo_fighter]

You run it on the NAS and it logs into your iCloud account to download directly to the NAS unattended. I don't think it takes up much cpu or ram.

I only use iCloud for photo backup but there is another docker to sync both drive and photos: https://github.com/mandarons/icloud-...main/README.md

Originally Posted by Alistair

Where am I going to run the docker container? No Mac or PC. Or would it run in the NAS (which means a more expensive NAS, but that might be ok)? The doc says it just does the photos library - is there anything similar to do the iCloud Drive (tax docs, etc)?

[marciero]

Do these local NAS solutions have device specific syncing? I currently just use Dropbox, which backs up and syncs files across devices in real time, but only syncs specified files on a given device.

Originally Posted by foo_fighter

You run it on the NAS and it logs into your iCloud account to download directly to the NAS unattended. I don't think it takes up much cpu or ram.

I only use iCloud for photo backup but there is another docker to sync both drive and photos: https://github.com/mandarons/icloud-...main/README.md

Would this docker container approach work with Db files? -I'd like to back them up without syncing/saving them on a local machine.

Lastly, what about files on web platforms like Colab or Google drive- is there a way to sync and back those up directly?

[marciero]

Originally Posted by bigbill

I'm writing a thesis and I do a manual backup at the end of each day to a Seagate External 4 TB SSHD. I have a smaller Imation 1 TB that I take when I travel.

Many schools will have multiple repository options. Mine has One Drive and Google drive, with unlimited storage. Between those and my paid Dropbox- 1TB with syncing- I am probably covered, without being tethered to an external device (setting aside privacy considerations for some of that content). But I suppose enterprise level solutions offered by employers gets away from "Home" backup strategy