![]() ![]() I recall seeing pictures of a bag of silver dollars melted together by a California brush fire. ![]() Computer media do not like heat, and building fires are nothing if not hot. I also took the opportunity to finally retire all my Windows stuff that had been in Several Parallels VMs - It's copied onto two local and an off site back-up disk but I'm fairly sure I won't be looking at it again.Ī Fireproof container might help, but I have some doubts it is really adequate. Replacing the iMac a few days ago took less than a day for everything to be copied back and synchronized after a fresh OS install. It took about a day to set up and has been running without problems since the start of Covid. The Pi stuff is copied over to the 2TB drive with rsync every night, all of the iCloud stuff is also stored locally on the iMac and everything is backed up nightly onto rotated Time Machine disks - Every month or so, one of the TM disk is rotated off-site. I managed to get all my important stuff down to ~500GB (including 20+ years of emails).įor me, I found that the iMac's 1 TB hard drive, an external 2TB drive for recording live TV, and 400GB of iCloud storage work well. I've simplified my life and now use an iMac, an iPad Pro, and a couple of Raspberry Pis. I'm retired, and in spite of a learned paranoia, I can't be bothered with some of this stuff. I've never tried Google Drive but that's mainly because I loath them as a company! Others I've tried in the past include Box but their free space remaining has a habit of not recalculating after you delete files and you "run out of space" when, in reality, you should have plenty free iceDrive but this doesn't play nice with the excellent FreeFileSync program that I use a lot nextCloud which had various issues that I couldn't get resolved and pCloud, which also had issues which meant that backups would randomly fail to sync. However, Filen.io's prices do look very reasonable with a €35.99 lifetime payment currently for 200GB (this is a Black Friday deal). My requirements are modest so I've been only using the free versions of all three. The latter is by far the fastest for uploads and, so far, hasn't glitched on me. Having gone through several cloudy services, I'm currently using a combination of the following: OneDrive, DropBox and Filen.io (yes, these three will all work on the same computer at the same time). ![]() I am evaluating Dropbox now, at least it is faster - and more expansive, but honestly, the time I spent faffing with OneDrive was way more expensive for me. Searched for solutions online, and almost all the suggestions were on the line of "reinstall and resync", which would take days. I got plenty of different versions of files that were out of sync.Īside from the crashes, beachballed with an alarming frequency. Also, it crashed *silently* from time to time, making the computers out of sync. ![]() Also, the OneDrive app on the Mac is slow as hell, kept "looking for changes" or similar bullshit. I was using it to synchronize three Macs (work, home, and laptop for travel).Īfter some time I noticed that some of the files were not stored locally - any attempt to open them required downloading. My take on OneDrive: started using it for the same reason, and used the same procedure. Don't use drive, but do use Onedrive (cos the 6 user deal is brilliant value for money)Īlways store locally, and preferably on multiple computers ![]()
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