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Dropbox alternative for photographer (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by idontgotoparties@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I work as a photographer and used unlimited dropbox in the past. Now that DB has capped their business tier to 5TB, I’m searching for an alternative. I currently have about 25TB of data. Yearly I add about 5TB. My main computer is a Macbook Pro.

My current (dropbox) workflow: I import & edit files on an external SSD. I keep those files on there until they finish uploading. When I’m done with the project, I flag them as “online only” so there is a copy on the server when I need it, and my SSD has more free space.

I know Dropbox isn’t technically a backup-service. But for my purpose it does everything I want from a back-up: no loss of data and limited version history.

What I’m looking for is a way to keep my current workflow but without dropbox and ideally with a cloud backup system.

I’m mainly looking into NAS (synology) but can’t find a solution that ticks of my boxes. Synology Drive doesn’t do selective sync on external SSD for example.

Thanks!!

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[–] IamxHM@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Please don't rely on only one cloud service like Dropbox. If not already, keep 1 more copy backed up locally.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Uggh, it's expensive to meet that duplicate backup requirement (and I agree with it!)

What are your thoughts on a single backup say with S3/B2/Impossible, etc? 25TB is quite a bit to have a local backup plus online (though it's the right answer).

[–] Shayeta@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, a giant home NAS that automatically uploads things to S3 with a lifecycle rule to automatically move rarely used files to S3 Glacier.