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that great for people who have the knowledge to do that, but keep in mind that most people do not, and don't want to learn how to selfhost from the ground up if all they want to do is backup some photos or work files.
Well, there are always ready-to-go solutions. A 1TB external drive isn't all that expensive nowadays, and they're enough for daily use!
Plus, honestly... there are soo many tutorials online about how to set up everything, and most things are a couple of commands one has to copy/paste into a command prompt. The anxiety is far worse than the procedure itself.
Maybe what's needed is propagating these tutorials more, make them visible and highlight their accessibility in terms of procedural difficulty!
Is there a way to automatically back up a device to an external drive like that? An advantage of the cloud is it’s automatic. So I don’t have to manually do it all the time or risk losing recent files.
Absolutely. Plenty of backup software will work with an external drive, provided it's plugged in. Hell even a cron job would work.
I don’t know about LibertyLizard, but I thought they were asking how to do that when one is out and about, and the external drive is at home
Ah, I see. Definitely possible to set up something like nextcloud or immich for file and photo backup. Then use a VPN like tailscale or wireguard to access while out of the house, or setting it up publicly available (usually being a reverse proxy).