[Discuss] Cloud backup

[Jerry Feldman]

I was leaning toward that solution. Just wanted to hear other people's
opinions.

On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 10:31 AM Jack Coats <jack at coats.org> wrote:

> Using either works.  I like Dropbox because it is 'just a local drive'
> that is auto-duplicated offsite and/or to other machines.
> The copy is just done asynchronously to your other activities.
>
> Google does take a bit more effort, so unless you have a financial or
> other reason, I would go for the Dropbox solution.
>
> Nothing against Google, just the tool I would select for this job.
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 9:19 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I currently have Dropbox professional and Google drive (free). I snapshot
>> backup my tower to a local hard drive. I'm thinking of backing up the most
>> recent snapshot to either Dropbox or Google. The advantage of Dropbox is
>> that it supports Linux so I could either tar or cp or rsync to a folder in
>> my local Dropbox directory, and it would automatically sync to the Dropbox
>> cloud. With Google I could use deja dup. I certainly could use aws, but I
>> already have Dropbox and Google accounts. I'm just looking for opinions on
>> both.
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