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The answer is DropBox with full sync. I have an actual folder on my PC with all my data on it, plus it's backed up to the cloud with version control, plus accessible from my phone (or any operating system) in a pinch. Not a shill but I've been using DropBox for actual decades even on Linux and never had a single issue.
That’s not any different to using onedrive with “full sync”.
The difference is that Dropbox has never suddenly changed the entire way that my file storage works, and doesn't randomly unset my preferences during mandatory updates, and doesn't impose itself upon my workflow at every opportunity. It's worked the exact same way as when I started using it. When I want something backed up to cloud, I put it in the backup directory.
I only mentioned full sync at all because it's an option on Windows to make it work the way OneDrive does by default, where it doesn't download the files to your PC. Not sure why you'd want that though.
You’d want that when you have more onedrive storage filled up than you have storage space on your device. I’ve got 2TB+ in onedrive, but have multiple Windows machines where I don’t have 2TB of space to download all that, nor do I want it to be downloaded.
That makes sense. I can't imagine what kind of stuff you'd back up that has so much storage needs though. My use case is I have 1 main PC at all times, I don't even have 2 computers, and my phone. I want everything locally on my PC in case DropBox dies, and I want it on the cloud in case my PC dies. I only really use like 10GB of storage, and only that much because I put all my music on there too
Mostly 50+ years of family photos and home videos, from converted VHS tapes, to thousands of 4K60 HDR videos.
I have it all on my RAID DAS, but I also have it on no less than 3 cloud backup services. With the cost of local storage these days I trust my cloud backups a lot more than local.
I made the mistake of using Google Photos before they became evil, and now I have a huge job on my to-do list to migrate all those photos
(—_—;)Yeh google photos is one of my backups, and I do hope they one day make a better way to export everything because as it is you lose all of the metadata on every photo/video, which is terrible for archiving photos.
It sucks cause google photos is without doubt the absolute best photo/video manager on the planet.