[Discuss] Cloud backup

[jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

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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