online backup
What site do you recommend for online backup, that doesn't cost any money and can back up entire folders?
I have a Dropbox account, but the free level doesn't offer enough storage--only 2 GB. The only other application I know is Google Drive, but iI use Firefox, and Google Drive is demanding I download Chrome in order to enable uploading entire folders. |
Buy a USB Drive?
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Personally, I have no problems using rclone to sync from Linux to Google Drive, and 15GB is enough for what I use it for, and I get that free. |
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rsync is the fundamental technology that you can use. Here is a good, well-rounded introduction to the topic.
Rsync-based backup tools worth considering is another discussion of good tools, based on rsync, that are likely to be useful. Pragmatically, what you need is a daemon that, running under privileges that allow it to reach the files in question, sync's those files into a directory that ordinary users ... at best ... can only read, so that L33T H4X0RZ can't touch them. Furthermore, it needs to be an incremental backup so that you can easily recover past versions of any file. Apple's now-ubiquitous Time Machine utility ... provided with every Macintosh ... is a definitive and thoroughly well-done implementation of this idea, and, at its core, it is basically built upon rsync. Whether-or-not you have (or, need) such a "cool front-end," you do need a daemon that is ... at least, every hour or so ... combing through the "resources to be protected" and making a copy of them into a place that cannot be reached by mortals. |
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Yak Shaving is not my thing.
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It works on every version of every OS I've tried it on. USB sizes are economical too. How much more "online" you need? You're Welcome. |
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My best advice is whatever hosted solution you go with, encrypt before write.
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Habitual's answer was on the money...don't like the free online backup solutions? Use something else. If having the same thing said to you in 100 words vs. 4 makes it different somehow, there's no real solution for that. I've posted a tutorial on this very site about how to get rclone working with Google drive specifically for online backups, which is easily found with a brief search. Putting "free online disk space" into Google pulls up plenty of lists, telling you capacity you get for free...and you didn't bother telling us how MUCH data you want to back up, so how are we even going to suggest something for you to use?? Again; want more space? Pay for it. Dropbox supports Linux well, Google Drive works fine via rclone for backups, Box can be 'mounted' as another disk, and even Microsoft Onedrive works under Linux. ALL of this information could easily be found with some very basic research, such as putting "google drive sync in linux", or "onedrive in linux" into the search engine of your choice. |
"Dropbox" is simply an overglorified "rsync."
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About a month ago I saw a post here that had a link to some linux program that was supposed to let you access almost any online storage. Wish I could remember it. Might try to search. Seemed like a good program. Think one could even automate it.
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