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Also Amazon Cloud Drive is $60/year, and is unlimited. They also have an unlimited plan for photos for $12/year.

ACD just royally fucked those of us that use rclone with it. I've now just bought a bunch of hard drives and a recent model optiplex to keep at a family member's house for my offsite backup. Not worth the "convenience" of a managed service when they pull this shit, especially with how expensive it really is compared with owning the equipment and keeping it at a friend/family's house.

Apparently rclone violated amazon's TOS by having an API key in the source code instead of authing with a central server? The cynic in me says "whelp, that's what we get for actually utilizing an 'unlimited' service".

Does icloud work with rclone?

I don't think so.

How is their local internet connection going to handle that? Do you have the same kind of professional reliability like data centers do?

You should be doing a local NAS type thing like you do with your optiplex at home and a cloud service to diversify your backup types.

I think the 99.99% uptime that most residential internet has will suffice for my incremental backups that I run daily from all of my machines. ACD with rclone had relatively mediocre throughput and slow stat-ing compared to a basic rsync, so if anything I'm in better shape than before for performance.

I already have internal, networked, and cold backups. I just needed one offsite. Doesn't matter to me whether it's a 15 minute drive away, or across the country. If my entire city gets nuked I have bigger things to worry about.

ACD involves dumping all your data into one folder. iCloud has better integration with OSX.

Didn't they stopped offering the $12/yr unlimited photos plan? I was on that plan and last year I was migrated off to the 60usd/yr unlimited everything plan.

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