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!

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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.

    railsdev,

    Storj, specifically using RClone and the native Uplink CLI (vs the S3 gateway). Super cheap, P2P, built-in client-side encryption are what keep me on it (and steering clear of the nightmare that is AWS).

    capital, (edited )

    Primarily on site with NextCloud for getting to my important documents via mobile.

    Backups are going to Wasabi via restic but if you want to do something a little more “live”, rclone mount with Wasabi also works well, even on Windows.

    As always, I suggest encrypting before putting it anywhere but your own devices.

    WhiteHotaru,

    So you want to backup or do you want to file share/work together on documents?

    For backup I use Spideroak for all our families computers. It did a solid job over the last four Linux laptops and MacBooks I used. I only backup the home directory and the external drive with my Photo Library.

    For Cloud Storage I use OneDrive. I don’t have much to share, so this is normally enough.

    hayhay,

    I’d say like 65% backup, 35% share/collaboration. It’s why this simple decision has become unnecessarily complex for me haha. I want a balance of privacy, yet I want the ease of access and user-friendliness of Dropbox.

    From this thread, I think ente is partly perfect for my needs. I’ve been trying out filen and it’s been quite good, but I might stick with Dropbox till the Proton mac app launches and see how it is.

    Might end up just doing NC + storej, though. Many have said NC has improved significantly as of late so it might be worth a look at once more.

    M137,

    Mega

    I pay for it anyway since I was lucky enough to get a few accounts on a private forum where everything is shared via mega, it’s very active and a great community. Only a few times I haven’t found something I was looking for there, and that was quickly solved by posting a request. (The only way to join is to get personally invited. And no, I won’t use my invites for randoms, don’t ask).

    Haven’t used torrents for close to a decade now, it’s nice to have basically anything easily findable with direct download from mega.

    Yinchie,

    Filen.io for files and Ente.io for photos.

    hayhay,

    How do you like Filen so far? I tried it out with a few directories and it felt very snappy. Plus, the .fileignore feature is phenomenal and I wish more providers would do it!

    I heard when filen was first launched there were some issues with their encryption and some file loss, do you happen to know if this has largely been fixed? Thanks!

    chemicalwonka,
    @chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    I migrated all my cloud files to M-Discs because in the near future, even if I encrypt my files with PGP before sending them to the cloud, big tech will be able to break their encryption. I don’t trust any big tech.

    Extrasvhx9he, (edited )

    Curious why M-disc specifically? Isn’t that storage media kind of expensive for the amount of storage space you get? Plus unless every disc is getting buried in a capsule, you would still have to baby it like any other optical disc even though its more durable.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Noel,

    Mega.

    Free.

    50 gb. Signed up years ago.

    end-to-end encrypted, client side. they claim they don’t have my decryption key. But don’t ask me why/how tho, since i’m not Bruce Schneier.

    Nice, various, and widespread 3rd-party clients especially for Android.

    Good user base. No one share sugarsync, or box.com

    Reslient service, i hope. I remember i once have Copy.com account, but they closed. RIP Zippyshare, etc

    InfiniWheel,

    Seconded. Still got my free 50GB Mega from years ago. I’m assuming they will reduce it someday but I shall use it at its fullest til that day comes.

    Their clients are also source available, but I don’t think many outside people check them anyway.

    filister,

    Take a look at www.storj.io, their prices are pretty low

    Maximilious,
    @Maximilious@kbin.social avatar

    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.

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