![]() ![]() You can backup from multiple source folders. IDrive handles backups separately from sync. I might like to sync some of my project folders, but they could be moved into a single sync folder. Almost everything else I sync is synced with my server, where they get backed up locally and sent to my off-site backup provider electronically. The files I sync with every machine are mostly kleinfelter-file-cabinet – a collection of ‘documents’ I share with my wife. I think I can get around the requirement for multiple sync folders. Try that with subfolders of your /etc and let me know how it works for you! ![]() Some nut cases on the web suggest putting the real folders in the sync folder and linking to them from the other place you need them. You might think you could get around the multiple sync folder issue with symlinks, but it simply ignores them. Somebody even made it work with Linux-ARM. IDrive looks like it meets all the requirements except multiple sync folders, for $70 per year for 5 TB, with first year under $10. I didn’t even know I needed to add that to my requirements. They don’t support Linux-ARM and they don’t support 2FA for web logins! Wow. SpiderOak is bearable at $150/year for 2TB, but if I grow beyond that, the next stop is $320 for 5TB. At $288/year for 2.5 TB, Tresorit is more than I want to pay. They are zero knowledge and multiple sync folders. SpiderOak and Tresorit come pretty close. Nobody meets all of these as of April 2021. Can I manage it when I’m 80? Can my wife get files out of it when I’m dead? I can back it up to a 3rd party so I don’t need a local backup. If I have 2 computers sharing an online folder, some files to sync with one and some with the other. Uploads/downloads happen quick enough for my 2TB of data. Mac/Win/Linux-386/Linux-ARM - my Mac, wife’s Windows laptop, a Linux server, a future Windows laptop for me.Not like OneDrive where everything to sync lives inside a “OneDrive” folder. The vendor doesn’t store files unencrypted and doesn’t have the encryption key. And right now, my on-site backup is a beast of a server with triple-RAID for data and two-drive RAID for the OS. I’m skeptical I could keep it going when I reach age 80. I can sort of keep it going, but there is no way my wife would ever spend the effort, if I were temporarily disabled. I actually have all this right now, but it has too big a footprint. I need sync among my Win/Mac/Linux machines. … despite it not meeting my requirements. ![]()
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