| I really want to do better on this.... But at the moment I use SyncThing, and a 4TB external drive for backups. I use Back in Time, a GUI Rsync frontend. I organize things generally first by who it's for, then by the project. I have my personal projects folder, and a clients folder. I don't have any system for anything lower level that that, nor do I want one really. If something is used by multiple projects I'll just copy it and not have to worry about mentally refcounting. But I might make a folder for a specific type of reusable resource and copy things to and from it. I share pretty much exclusively via Facebook and email. I like to very aggressively avoid DIY software in daily life if I can, I don't really have any scripts that are just for personal use although I do have a few FOSS projects, so I don't use any scripts or anything to manage files. A lot of small stuff like my books and music collection is just straight synced between all my devices. SyncThing is pretty amazing and makes everything a lot easier. My photos mostly start on a phone, so they are synced as well, if I delete a crappy one on the computer, or move one elsewhere, it will go away on the phone(There is a metadata record left behind by the sync engine though, unless you manually delete the record, I think it includes filenames, not sure if that's an issue for the privacy types). Code of course is all on GitHub, I don't do any significant programming outside of projects big enough that they have their own Git repo. I use streaming services and don't pirate anything, so I have less data to manage. I'm just starting to approach having enough files where 1TB on my laptop isn't enough for everything I've ever made, so I think I will probably move to a NAS or cloud for some things. Backups and not that important files will go on the NAS which will have its own redundancy, more important stuff will be cloud and on my laptop if they fit. Unfortunately, NASes with RAID are expensive
Just the disks cost a ton, and then the NAS itself costs a lot if you want a nice low power commercial box with a remote access service, not some old server from eBay. Maybe I'll try a Pi Zero W 2 and USB disks. |