Bro wouldn’t recommend anyone a shady site like this. You gotta put some work into it. 😂

Bro wouldn’t recommend anyone a shady site like this. You gotta put some work into it. 😂

Huh? I'm not paying for nextcloud. It's free if you self-host it amd I self host it. I bought a cheap PC for like $150 that's got equivalent processing power and RAM that I've seen those shiny new self-hosting computers advertised for $400+. That was a 1-time fee. Plus I can use that as an extra server for other stuff I'm planning on setting up, like my own Nostr relay and maybe a Tor site or something. I have some other ideas too.

I pay $25 / year for the safe deposit box but that's not data backup specific. I've always had my paper documents in a safe depositb box, so that cost isn't going away if I stop using it for backup.

Google drive is like $20 / year I think. I used to only have my data on there unencrypted before I went sovereign self-hosting route. I probably could get rid of it because I'm pretty sure the other 3 backup options are more than enough. But it's only $20/ year so why not keep it around.

Also, I'm confused about your statement a bit. You think I'm paying more than what and getting less than what? What is supposed to pay me? Are you selling a backup service or something?

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Literally anything lol

I don't mab up my computer or the phone itself, because all my important data is sored on my self-hosted nextcloud or github. If my computer or phone kick the bucket suddenly and need to be re-imaged, it's just an excuse to start fresh with a newer OS amd less unused apps.

The self-hosted Nextcloud instance has its own built in encrypted backup which runs daily. I then aync that backup over to google drive (daily, I think) and then every 5 days also copy it over to a USB drive. These last 2 are done with a chron-scheduled shell script. The USB drive is 2 terrabytes, so it has plenty of space. The USB is set to keep 5 latest coppies of the backup.

About every month or so, I back up some of the more important pieces of data that are on my phone but aren't synced to the cloud onto a folder in the cloud, take the backup usb out. I take that USB to the bank ad put it innthe safe deposit box, take the second USB just like it out of the same box, plug it back into the computer and go.

So basically, if the hard-drive kicks the bucket, I have 3 versions of zipped up and encrypted backup: the latest one zipped on google drive, a few slightly older ones on the USB drive that's currently plugged in, and an older yet one stored in a safe deposit box at the bank.

I forgot to mention that my phone, tablet, and computers run data sync with nextcloud (some a limited one on just one or two folders, the other ones a full one. So copies of my data ate also on my various devices (so I don't have to rely on internet connectivity to access cloud data. Pkus it serves as backup #4.

I don't mab up my computer or the phone itself, because all my important data is sored on my self-hosted nextcloud or github. If my computer or phone kick the bucket suddenly and need to be re-imaged, it's just an excuse to start fresh with a newer OS amd less unused apps.

The self-hosted Nextcloud instance has its own built in encrypted backup which runs daily. I then aync that backup over to google drive (daily, I think) and then every 5 days also copy it over to a USB drive. These last 2 are done with a chron-scheduled shell script. The USB drive is 2 terrabytes, so it has plenty of space. The USB is set to keep 5 latest coppies of the backup.

About every month or so, I back up some of the more important pieces of data that are on my phone but aren't synced to the cloud onto a folder in the cloud, take the backup usb out. I take that USB to the bank ad put it innthe safe deposit box, take the second USB just like it out of the same box, plug it back into the computer and go.

So basically, if the hard-drive kicks the bucket, I have 3 versions of zipped up and encrypted backup: the latest one zipped on google drive, a few slightly older ones on the USB drive that's currently plugged in, and an older yet one stored in a safe deposit box at the bank.

I forgot to mention that my phone, tablet, and computers run data sync with nextcloud (some a limited one on just one or two folders, the other ones a full one. So copies of my data ate also on my various devices (so I don't have to rely on internet connectivity to access cloud data. Pkus it serves as backup #4.