Subj : Re: why I don't use onlin
To   : August Abolins
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Mon Mar 30 2026 15:22:00

AUGUST ABOLINS wrote:
>   @SUBJECT:why I don't use online backup                               N
> Hello Barry.Martin!
> 
> ** On Sunday 29.03.26 - 03:35, Barry.Martin wrote to Ky Moffet:
> 
> KM>> This is why I don't use online backup; they're all actually sync,
> KM>> not backup.
> 
>> Personally I would go with remote storage, but under my terms.  Make a
>> backup for here plus duplicate it and store at a friend's place (and
>> they could store theirs at my place).
> 
> Rclone, cmd-line, can operate under your own terms.  I use it to backup my
> /My Documents folder daily.  The first run took a while, but now only the
> newest files need to be transfered - that goes fairly quick.

It's not a cloud provider. It's web hosting with unlimited space, so I 
use some of it for backups. FTP is supported, nothing else.

Pretty sure WinSCP has sync/auto-upload capability, but it's not that 
much data. The criticals are about 4mb zipped.

Interesting that Internet Archive is supported by RClone, tho.
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