Comment by j45

The cloud is someone else's computer. Convenience isn't always reliability and security.

For anyone who is semi-technical, or not as technical as they wished when it came to file storage wondering what they can do...

- Whether it's been corporate clients, small business, or individuals: I universally recommend everyone owning a small QNAP or Synology that is storage as a zero maintenance appliance, running software to maintain a 2 way sync of your cloud drives.

- Even if you're using Google Cloud, MSFT, etc, continue to use it as you please, just siphon off a local data backup in case the internet or the cloud is down. It also can make some kinds of disaster recovery much quicker. For example if you back up your computers locally to a NAS, and then from there to the cloud, it can be a lot more manageable.

- Throwing something like Tailscale on it makes it invisible and hyper secure to have on all your devices too. I typically never use the NAS' network connection tools, as it's likely a juicy target to break.

- Last but not least, setup a different format of backup, automatically. Backup your file appliance to something like sync.com, tarsnap.com, backblaze, etc to back up elsewhere that you can access.

I'd be happy to learn what anyone else is doing. As someone who lost a ton of data on a Microsoft account once, never twice.

*I am perfectly capable of building a NAS myself running an open source package, but storage should be an appliance at home to focus on other things.