What do you use for cloud storage and why?

I’ve been wanting to move away from Dropbox for a long while, but I haven’t been able to find a suitable replacement. Dropbox has always been super convenient and has just worked for me.

I’ve tried Tresoit but the low link sharing limits (2gb) and 10gb limit for files is somewhat of a deal breaker for me. I’ve been interested in Proton Drive for a while, but until their mac app is ready it’s unusable for me.

I’ve also tried self-hosting a nextcloud instance (multiple times) but I’ve always just had too many issues with it. It’s been inconsistent in actually backing up files from my mac, I’ve had so many file conflicts, etc. I have a truenas scale server, so if there are other self-hosted methods I should try let me know.

Currently, I’m looking at filen and sync.com, but I’ve heard both have their issues so I’m curious to hear everyones thoughts on them as well.

Thanks!

mark3748,

Self hosted Nextcloud. Immich for photos.

wreckedcarzz,
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⚠️ Do not use the app as the only way to store your photos and videos.

immediately followed by

⚠️ Always follow 3-2-1 backup plan for your precious photos and videos!

now I don’t think I’m overly bright, but that doesn’t seem like advice to ignore

mark3748,

Weirdly enough, I didn’t say it was my only way to store anything, nor that the program stores photos at all.

It syncs the photos from my devices, the storage for those photos is on a separate server (as is the NextCloud storage) that is encrypted and backed up to Backblaze B2.

Immich is a gallery and organization app that syncs from your devices, the underlying storage is whatever you provide.

wreckedcarzz,
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Weirdly enough, you didn’t say but drew the readers to that conclusion, hence my point for others.

hayhay,

This actually seems like a very cohesive solution, might try it out!

netchami,

Always follow 3-2-1 backup plan for your precious photos and videos!

This is good advice.

Longmactoppedup,

I have started trialling mega. 20GB free.

So far so good.

One minor annoyance I have had is keepass .kdb files. You can’t just open from mega android, make changes and have it auto save back to the cloud. Have to save out, edit then share back in. There is a autosync app by a third party which I have not tried.

scottmeme,

I run it myself in a datacenter. I do basically anything and everything I want off my own hardware.

hayhay,

I’m assuming this would cost a fair bit then? Also, what do you use to sync the files from your devices to the servers?

scottmeme,

Yeah, but I own all the hardware so that’s a upside.

Truenas scale has easy rsync configurations so I do that.

ninjan,

Replicated between two sites I hope? Not much of a backup if it’s in one location.

scottmeme,

I have 2 Nas builds perfectly in sync at my house. My DC hosted Nas is only media.

Vexz,

I use a Synology NAS which I can access from everywhere as long as I have internet connection.

LUHG_HANI,
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Yeh this is probably the quickest, simplistic and most robust way. Not the cheapest but unless you have unraid ready and know exactly what to do you’d be hard pushed to find a better solution.

I use unraid, nextcloud, Immich, Tailscale and so on . It’s not set and forget.

netchami,

I have a self-hosted Nextcloud instance, but I don’t expose it to the internet, so I use Proton Drive if I need to share files with other people. I use self-hosted Immich to sync my photos from all of my devices.

Landmammals,

Azure

hayhay,

Sorry, but could you elaborate? Is there a specific way or thing you do to sync to azure?

Landmammals,

Desktop and Synology back up to azure, and I have a drive letter mapped to an azure blob.

furrowsofar,

I have Nextcloud on my Media Center. That is just on our LAN. For sharing I use Bitwarden Send. If I had a big file to share I probably would load it to Backblaze B2 and share the link. I pay for Bitwarden and I will pay for B2 once my use goes up more.

ninjan,

I run Dropbox, since they’re only in cloud storage they can’t really run around and sell data, if found out there would be no reason to stay for their customers. Unlike say Google and Microsoft.

zoontechnicon,

You run dropbox? Impressive.

ANIMATEK,

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    TrenchcoatFullofBats,

    Nope.

    hruzgar,

    I wouldn’t trust a billion dollar company to not sell my datam Just sayin

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    hayhay,

    On their roadmap I think I saw they were going to bring support for it? But yeah I wouldn’t trust that until I see it. It’d be annoying to transfer over all of my data from DB to filen if I were to go that route, but at the same time rclone already supports Proton Drive, but the mac app still isn’t here.

    Maximilious,
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    What files from your Mac are you trying to sync to next cloud? If you have a Truenas already, why are you hosting files from your Mac instead of mapping a share directly from your Truenas into Nextcloud and working directly off of the source instead?

    As for syncing photos from my phone to Nextcloud, I've had no issues over the past 3 years hosting it myself. I had one problem with a lot of conflicts where permissions on my truenas wouldn't allow nextcloud to delete them, so I had a manual cleanup process last month but that's the only problem I've had. I just switched to Truenas a few months ago from QNAP and am still learning the caveats of their very granular permissions but everything generally works about 99% of the time.

    hayhay,

    Wouldn’t mapping it directly to truenas be somewhat slow especially if I’m always on the go? My Truenas server is at at home while I dorm on campus, so I’m not sure if it would work out well. Plus, I’ve had a lot of issues with truenas + my hardware which led to me keeping this server mostly down over the last year or so. Everything seems stable and works fairly well now, but just airing on the side of caution.

    Does NC photos have tagging? Auto-tagging is why I’ve always been with Google Photos tbh, an alternative would be nice though.

    That said, my mac is mostly code, some emulation related stuff (thus the 10 gb limit of tresoit being annoying for me), and some documents/notes. My media is already self-hosted on jellyfin which works great atm, but I have it on my dropbox as well right now.

    johntash,

    Self hosted nextcloud works great for me. There have been a lot of improvements over the last few years, handling conflicts doesn’t feel as clunky and I don’t really run into as many unless I’m storing git repos in my NC directory.

    hayhay,

    I’m curious, are there any ways to just not backup directories in a .gitignore type of way? I started trying out filen and this single feature is just very very compelling for me

    I haven’t used NC in a while but the improvements seem good at first glance!

    shalafi,

    I just pay Google $99/yr. for 2TB of storage. I have my Google Drive mapped as G: and Windows libraries mapped to folders in the Google Drive.

    Super simple and cheap. I still have local backups for fast restores, and Google for cloud.

    Fermiverse,

    Syncthing to my selfhosted proxmox server at home then rclone encrypted and unencrypted depending on content, to my cloud storage. Fully automtatic meanwhile.

    Rclone syncs to various cloud services so the provider doesn’t matter from a technical point of view.

    Extrasvhx9he,

    Atm a burner dropbox account with cryptomator on top. Going to see how mega works with cryptomator and hopefully that will be my replacement

    Oha,

    Nextcloud on my own hardware

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