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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Do you use it on a phone too? I did find it tricky to set up (more options than I really need, and the phone app settings don’t really work unless you select “Web UI”, which is really strange), but I didn’t mind the setup if I could then leave it alone and it works. Ideally I want to set this up on other family phones, so I can update notes and they appear everywhere.


  • I’d like to use resilio, I even bought a license to support it as I use it for all my pc syncing. But it’s currently showing 41% battery use for today on my phone for 2 minutes screen time 11.5 hours background. Lenny Voyager shows 7% for 1.5 hour screen time. So something is not good with the phone app. Maybe the Android battery info display is misleading somehow (it confuses me because it shows a percentage of the time-interval you’re viewing, not a percentage of the total battery drain(.











  • I can’t recall storage costs (they’re on the website somewhere but are not straightforward).

    I was paying maybe $7 a month for a few hundred Gb, although not all of that was glacier.

    But retrieval was a pain. There’s no straightforward way to convert back from glacier for a lot of files and there’s a delay. The process creates a non-glacier copy with a limited lifespan to retrieve.

    Then the access costs were maybe $50 to move stuff out.

    I moved to rsync.net for the convenience and simplicity. It even supported setting up rclone to access s3 directly. So I could do cloud-to-cloud to copy the files over.


  • I like the versatility of rclone.

    It can copy to a cloud service directly.

    I can chain an encryption process to that, so it encrypts then backs up.

    I can then mount the encrypted, remote files so that I can easily get to them locally easily (e.g. I could run diff or md5 on select files as naturally as if they were local).

    And it supports the rsync --backup options so that it can move locally deleted files elsewhere on the backup instead of deleting them there. I can set up a dir structure such as Oldfiles/20240301 Oldfiles/20240308 Etc that preserve deletions.