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Ask HN: Cheap/effective way to manage physical backups of cloud files?

3 points by anoojb ↗ HN
I have my applications and files synchronize to a SaaS cloud file storage. I'd like maintain a physical copy in case of termination by the cloud provider.

What's the most cheap/effective way to manage physical/local backups that are synchronized with cloud storage provider. I'd prefer not to use another service like BackBlaze.

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jimmydoe
Get a qnap or synology, both have apps to sync from S3 compat cloud iirc.
anoojb
Thanks for the quick response. Would prefer not to buy specialized hardware.
smt89
Synchronization is not backup, learn the difference. For backup I'd choose a cold storage based on spinning disks, these things hold for 20 years unpowered with no problem. No SSDs - these fail after few years in cold storage.
beardyw
Agreed, synchronisation is great but is dangerous as your only strategy, otherwise a silly deletion locally means complete loss.

I only synchronise active work, and backup everything locally onto hard usb drives, and periodically onto a drive held off-site.

anoojb
Do you have a server setup to manage backups to local HDDs? Or do you periodically plugin drives for overnight backups?
uselpa
If your cloud storage is supported by rclone, you can use that to mount the storage and then back it up, locally or to an S3 storage at a different provider. That’s how I backup my wife’s and daughter’s OneDrive, using rclone and restic.