Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?
Synology or QNAP NAS. They collect backups from all computer in the house, encrypt them and ship the encrypted blobs to AWS Glacier.Synology in particular is a fantastic platform which does way more than a traditional NAS. It's quite polished personal cloud platform (way more so than FreeNAS) and includes hundreds of apps, even the backups into the cloud can be done in different ways.I also place a premium on the fact that Synology is a piece of hardware. The software comes built-in and taken for granted. What this means is that it's been sitting somewhere in the dark corner of my house since 2012, self-updating and not bothering me with upgrades or expired credit card / subscription, etc. It doesn't care if I run Linux/MacOS/Windows, it's just dumb storage that all of these OSes can backup to using built-in tools.Another tool I like is Resilio Sync [1], it's a cloudless Dropbox and it's perfect to sync /Documents and /Desktop across computers at home and at work. It's not a backup tool, but very much related, i.e. if I put a file on my desktop at work I know it will end up on Synology at home and eventually will get encrypted and backed up to Glacier, and yes, without any 3rd party servers involved.[1] https://www.resilio.com/individuals/