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0 pointswalterbell7y ago0 comments

Do you use Synology iOS app for backup to NAS? Is it limited to photos, or can it also handle media like music or video?

One issue I've found with a similar approach is that many mobile apps are limited to iCloud, Dropbox and Google Driver for state synchronization. Only a few apps (e.g. https://2doapp.com, https://notebooksapp.com, https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/) make the effort to support open standards like WebDAV and CalDAV.

iOS now supports storage providers, so you can use a dedicated application to transfer files between devices via SSH/SMB/etc, but many apps cannot export/import all state via a single backup file.

> Any sensitive data is encrypted

Is this done on clients (E2E) or server? If the server, how do you manage encryption keys?

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hkajhfjl7y ago

Re: encryption.

The server is encrypted, as are all the VMs (except ones I don't care about, say running a small web app or whatever).

Most stuff is in KeePass, and the database is then backed up.

The encryption keys are stored in KeePass. That database is my most important thing, and I have many copies of it that stay in sync. For eg, I have a script that emails it to me once a day.

I use an app called PhotoSync on iOS to backup pictures. The synology app can backup music and video (as far as I know), but I prefer PhotoSync.

The USB drive at home is NOT encrypted. If someone steals that, they will have access to my docs and pics, but not to KeePass of course. This is done for ease of access in case something happens to me.

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