{"id":230,"date":"2020-05-09T19:13:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T02:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2021-05-16T10:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T17:14:23","slug":"file-sync-and-remote-storage-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/09\/file-sync-and-remote-storage-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"File Sync and Remote Storage\/Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

NOTE: This guide assumes you have set up Nextcloud<\/a> as your file synchronization system.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remote storage\/backup is, arguably, essential, for anyone. Whether it’s your work data, or just photos from your daily life – you don’t want to suddenly loose all that data because of a hardware failure, or other technical issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, automatic and immediate synchronization of your data is also very useful. So, typically, these features are paired together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, at the current time, there are no good open source solutions for file synchronization and remote storage\/backup that make use of inexpensive object storage<\/a>.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> (But if you know of one, let me know!) So instead of about $5 bucks for object storage on the order of 250 gigabytes, you’re going to probably have to spend about $15 bucks for block storage<\/a> on the order of 150 gigabytes. Even so, open source block storage can still be on par with or\u00a0cheaper<\/em>\u00a0than proprietary object storage solutions like Dropbox or Box, if your data storage needs are around 150 GB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other option to go cheaper is to host your own regular disk storage at home<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Configure External Storage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After adding block storage to your VPS<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, you will also need to configure external storage support on Nextcloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n