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Could it sync to an S3 bucket or something?
Syncthing itself only syncs to a local file system.
What is local is up for discussion though, if you are willing to run a small compute process in Google Cloud and then use gcsfuse, this will present Google Cloud Storage as if it were a local file system to your syncthing process, and then, yes... it would be storing into object storage. However Syncthing relies on
inotifyfrom the file system to perform resyncs, and something like a fuse system will not support this, so you'd need to configure a rescan interval.A NAS is going to prove long-term cheaper, but if all you want is a constantly in-sync backup you control, I'd not try and use object storage for this, but instead would look at Hetzner and their servers... +6TB is from €40 per month. I would just put Debian on that, install Syncthing, and let it store things locally... it will be long-term cheaper than running compute + object storage elsewhere.
If I tried to build my NAS in Hetzner it would cost around €200 per month, and frankly that means in 18 months it will have cost the same as building it at home, except the home system will be good for +5 years.
Syncthing is incredible, but Cloud pricing of compute + storage is not cheap.
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FYI Ecto in the PC Tech thread suggested Backblaze so I'll have a look at both and then probably forget and end up in the same place in a few years time :)
https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/personal/windows-online-backup
hippy
Ok, that sounds more useful. A one-way sync from phone to PC/laptop I could tolerate I guess. The problem is my photo library is bigger than the storage on my laptop so I'd need to replace the drive on that before I bothered otherwise I'll end up with a mess of half synced stuff.
Could it sync to an S3 bucket or something? That would be useful for automated live backup. I do regular backups to Glacier but they're like "end of days" backups and I would hate to restore from it.
Basically, I want a NAS, but in the cloud, so it doesn't sit in my lounge, waiting to die.