[Digikam-users] what do you use for backups?

[Michael]

I rsync /home/Documents to a thumb drive and /home/Pictures to another

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> At home, i use a NAS connected to 100Mb ethernet through power supply. An
> rsync script synchronize at 4:00AM a copy from host computer to the NAS
> using a smb mount (300Gb). You just need to take a care about the SMB mount
> options for file naming (UTF8, long file name, rights. etc...) The NAS can
> be acceded through WIKI by a MAC and a Windows to show images through FS.
> The NAS support also UPNP, so you can display image with a tablets or a
> phone.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2016-06-06 18:39 GMT+02:00 Daniel Bauer <linux at daniel-bauer.com>:
>
>>
>>
>> Am 06.06.2016 um 16:37 schrieb Michael Fierro:
>> > Dropbox! Dropbox's default behavior is to store a copy of every file on
>> > every computer you back it up to. Plus there's the copy stored on their
>> > cloud. PLUS, if you pay for the extra, they do unlimited file
>> > versioning. It works incredibly well.
>>
>>
>> This is fantastic if you only take a 64 GB of photos every half a year
>> and use the time in between for the upload :-)
>>
>> It is also fantastic if you don't care, that at least dropbox has access
>> to your files.
>>
>> Then it's great that your backup lasts exactly as long as dropbox lasts -
>> it wouldn't be the first such service that disappears.
>>
>> Even if upload times would increase by 100, I would never, never, never
>> leave my files somewhere that is completely out of my control.
>>
>> Dropbox and the like for sure is cool to share some MB of files or for a
>> short time storage of smaller amounts of data. But it is not all all
>> suitable for a save backup.
>>
>> Daniel
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