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Syncing and backing up personal data is still too hard

3 points| dcreemer | 8 years ago |zachary.com

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mankash666|8 years ago

Looking at the final diagram in the article, though you've achieved your aim of redundant backup, it certainly ISN'T any simpler. If anything, it's a LOT more complex than simply buying dropbox storage and dumping everything there.

dcreemer|8 years ago

true -- it's more complicated. However I wanted encrypted at rest documents (and that's hard with Dropbox), and I need backup - not just sync, so Dropbox can only provide half the solution.

There's an opportunity for someone here...

dcreemer|8 years ago

This isn’t high art, but perhaps it will be useful to others. Getting my family data reasonably well backed up and synchronized between our many devices was a harder problem that I expected it to be.