Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Weatherman
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Nov 21 2022 09:43:00

-=> Weatherman wrote to Gamgee <=-

 G> What do you use all this storage space for? Is this a business thing,
 G> or just for home use?

 We> It is for home use, but I do run several Internet based systems
 We> for various thing.  I also use it the very same way that Google
 We> Photos works, for photo/video backups for our phones.  I just
 We> have an app on our phones that auto SFTPs new files in
 We> photo/video directories to my server.

 We> So I'm basically my own cloud.  I also am a data hoarder, so I
 We> download tons of content.  Lots of old TV shows and things like
 We> that.

 We> Some of the storage is for disk backups of all my server VMs,
 We> physical PCs, etc, too.  And I keep 31 backups of each (one month
 We> worth), just to be safe.

 We> The backups use almost 24TB by itself.  I also have weeks for of
 We> DVR data for my security cameras.  Video takes up lots of
 We> storage.

Wow, very cool.  Is the auto-SFTP app on the phone a custom/private 
thing, or is it a publicly available app?  I might be interested in 
trying that.


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