Apple i cloud back up

[Buckman]

We have never used Cloud so that is not an issue. I have never posted personal photos on FB, but have posted photos of scenes from regimental days.

We use Whatsapp to post personal photos to relatives and friends. I think these photos are stored in a file on their phones unless they have set up a block like we have done and the photos are not saved to the phone, but can be viewed in the app itself.

 

[Bluetonic]

Looks very good. My son has been planning to do the same with our storage but to include mirroring between servers. He has the knowledge as he does such data management for a living. Just never seem to find the time.

Far too hard for me and he is far too busy. Perhaps when he retires.

John

Yeah, finding time is always the issue and this has been on the to do list for a couple of years.
I finally made myself get a home NAS set up a month or so ago, and it has been a steep learning curve dispite working in the IT industry for the last 20 years.
I now have most of my music hosted which includes a lot of demos and bootlegs that are not available from the usual suspects, home automation is in it's infancy but I can now control my xmas lights from my armchair or just schedule them to turn on and off at specific times in a specific mode.
Just fighting with adding other stuff like the central heating and smart meter.
Photo storage was a have to, as my eldest is at uni on an art degree and has so many photos to backup and my wife has way too many photos and her google drive is always full.

Future projects are to add a VPN and Pi-hole to the server, maybe something for over Christmas 😁

 

[Jcloughie]

Yeah, finding time is always the issue and this has been on the to do list for a couple of years.
I finally made myself get a home NAS set up a month or so ago, and it has been a steep learning curve dispite working in the IT industry for the last 20 years.
I now have most of my music hosted which includes a lot of demos and bootlegs that are not available from the usual suspects, home automation is in it's infancy but I can now control my xmas lights from my armchair or just schedule them to turn on and off at specific times in a specific mode.
Just fighting with adding other stuff like the central heating and smart meter.
Photo storage was a have to, as my eldest is at uni on an art degree and has so many photos to backup and my wife has way too many photos and her google drive is always full.

Future projects are to add a VPN and Pi-hole to the server, maybe something for over Christmas 😁

Have you thought about mirroring for added security? The way I see it is to duplicate your nas in a different location, then use proprietary software to sync, I think a nas system come with such software. So you will not be left with problems if your house burns down.

I am told that good cloud systems duplicate clients files over different servers, perhaps in different countries.

I don’t feel that cloud security is an issue for the common man. If someone hacks into my photos, good luck to them. Even my emails will make boring reading.


John

 

[Sam Vimes]

Mrs V has extensive home automation. She can control just about anything merely by asking me to do it. 😉

 

[Bluetonic]

Have you thought about mirroring for added security? The way I see it is to duplicate your nas in a different location, then use proprietary software to sync, I think a nas system come with such software. So you will not be left with problems if your house burns down.

I am told that good cloud systems duplicate clients files over different servers, perhaps in different countries.

I don’t feel that cloud security is an issue for the common man. If someone hacks into my photos, good luck to them. Even my emails will make boring reading.


John

Yeah, Mirroring or syncing to a different location is on the short term list, I just need to save up for a big HDD to do it and then probably sit a Raspberry Pi 4 with Open Media Vault or cassaOS in a corner somewhere

 

[Sam Vimes]

I've already got a PI 4 running OSMC as my media centre. The new PI 500 looks interesting but I've still got some old Pcs kicking around that I could put Linux on.

Too many hobbies, not enough time.