I store my files and why you should not rely on fancy tools for backup

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  • icloud_photos_downloader

    A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud

  • icloud-photo-downloader: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

    I've used this to great success! As far as I could tell, it grabbed every photo and video at the highest quality. Very happy.

  • icloud-photo-downloader: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

    I've used this to great success! As far as I could tell, it grabbed every photo and video at the highest quality. Very happy.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • KeePass2.x

    unofficial mirror of KeePass2.x source code

  • Oh, and use 2FA where possible (especially in regards to the online services) and use something like https://keepass.info/ for managing passwords - to have them be sufficiently long and different for every site or platform that you use.

  • Camlistore

    Perkeep (née Camlistore) is your personal storage system for life: a way of storing, syncing, sharing, modelling and backing up content.

  • My understanding is that there are two issues. First, modern deduplicating backup software like borg/restic/duplicacy store data in a repository in unique chunks. This avoids the issue that incremental backup software like duplicity have where they can create long chains of incremental changes which is slow to restore and increases the likelihood of errors on restore. Second, both deduplicating and incremental backup solutions aren't suggested for long-term archiving as they chop your files into lots of little pieces and the chances of not being able to read the repositories 10 years down the road are high. For that reason it's good to have a local backup in a simple, standard format like tar/zip or just a folder. As an example, see criticism of the Perkeep software [1] which is marketed as long term storage, but uses chunking deduplication for no particularly good reason.

    [1] https://perkeep.org

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