Comment by justsomehnguy
7 hours ago
> So our first principle is to have a backup, i.e. a copy of your files someplace else. So far so good.
So who are we? A household with a localhost administrator?[0]
Then you are surely doesn't need encrypted, chunk-level corporate level bla-bla-bla.
You need a Syncthing copy to some other device not at home - and an additional backup procedure to maintain the history and protect against PEBKAC errors - which can run on your local Syncthing copy or/and the other one.
And no, nobody needs your 555GB of RAWs of sunsets/flowers/precious_family_moments you shot - not even you.[1]
[0] well considering the tone of TFA and most of the comments here
[1] that's Instagram/Google Photos/iCloud for nowadays, totally with "Remember this day N years ago?"
> So who are we? A household with a localhost administrator?
In my case, yes. I've gotten into the trap of building a homelab that over time became pretty important, more like a small prod environment. We take for granted the "stability" that cloud services provide (until the terms of service change and you are screwed over by either loss of privacy, loss of access, etc). Self-hosting these things yourself exposes you to this complexity.
Photos aren't that important, how about your passwords and documents and the whole setup around all this?
I also do a part of this just for the love of the game.