If you're archiving stuff to a cloud-synced folder, you NEED a strategy for ensuring ongoing integrity.

• maestral

  15 2,998 9.0 Python

  Open-source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux

Sometime late last fall, my NAS rebooted and my ZFS pools didn't come back online automatically, but Docker did automatically restart the Maestral client. In so doing, it detected an empty folder...and...promptly deleted EVERYTHING in my Dropbox, assuming I'd just deleted everything locally. It's an issue that has had at least a few bug reports and which as of yet still hasn't been addressed - basically, the client needs but does not have a way to say "a bunch of stuff is changing, are you sure?" before doing it - especially on a restart of the client.

• restic

  357 23,706 9.7 Go

  Fast, secure, efficient backup program

  

If you don't mind not being able to browse your files in the cloud I highly recommend using restic (https://github.com/restic/restic). It also works using snapshots so in the event everything gets deleted you can just restore an older snapshot. I've moved from rsync to restic a month ago and it's given me so much peace of mind

• InfluxDB

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  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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