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I've been looking into a few of these (need to replace keybasefs before zoom kills it)

- syncthing does one thing well. However you need to be your own server admin. Which is great if you are or your company will do it for you, but I don't want to do it for my personal stuff.

- syncany is exactly what I want, but it didn't get out of alpha, the team apparently didn't make money and have stopped maintaining it, and it still has some scary bugs, although probably my needs are somple enough that they woulnd't be triggered.

- cryptomator looks good itself, but you need something else to do the cloud storage part, which ideally supports webdav. Unfortunately the davfs2 crashes my linux box and the other alternatives don't seem to be much better.

- nextcloud and owncloud again want you to be your own server admin

- the guys benind tahoe-lahfs have a reputation for solid crypto and reliability, but it is complex to run. privatestorage.io were going to do a managed version, but it doesn't seem to have materialised yet.

- There are solutions like internxt and ipfs where everyone stores everyone else's files. I'm not sure I trust that not to go down without warning.

- proton are supposed to be coming out with a protondrive, which hopefully will have an open source client, although locked into them.

- There are proprietary ones like tresorit and spideroak, which have closed clients. I may have to grit my teeth and use one of them.

- A bunch of others I didn't evaluate yet.

What I want is for someone else to do the server admin part (availability and backups), but without my trusting them with my keys, which I only use with open-source client code. I don't mind paying a reasonable amount, but apparently this is hard.




Syncing doesn't even need a server if the devices you're using are online at the same time.

I just switched to it from Dropbox.


Yeah, I get your point - I'd like someone else to do the backups, though.


What are your thoughts on box.com and rsync.net?




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