> “The more eggs you have in one basket, the more likely the basket is to break,” he said.
I only have a google account to have access to Play store. Everything else, mail, calendar, photos and storage, has been moved off Google
> “The more eggs you have in one basket, the more likely the basket is to break,” he said.
I only have a google account to have access to Play store. Everything else, mail, calendar, photos and storage, has been moved off Google
Many years ago Microsoft has banned my outlook account for no reason. I tried contacting the support to resolve the issue - nothing. Only after writing a letter, I received the answer from Microsoft Germany:
We banned your account because I was distributing porn through onedrive (which I was not doing). The investigation showed that Microsoft could not find any wrongdoing. The account was gone nevertheless.
This is why I say:
- skip Gmail/Outlook and all this crap, use something proper like mailbox.org with your own domain - dont trust cloud. Backup once a month, use two clouds at the same time, have a cold storage with your backups - biggest risk is your apple icloud account. dont be dependant on them: dont use their credit card - dont use google/ms 2fa apps - have multiple accounts in parallel: one for google drive, one for search, one for mail (if you need it), one for youtube, etc
Edit: yeah it is [1]
> Phone companies are required by law to port your number out when you start service with a new carrier. According to the FCC, a company can't refuse to port your number even if you have an outstanding balance or unpaid termination fees.
[1] https://telzio.com/blog/what-to-do-when-a-carrier-refuses-to...
It looks like with Google you are supposed use the Google Fi app or website to obtain a “port out number” and PIN [1] to give the new carrier when they ask for account number and PIN.
If you accounts have been banned I wonder if you can still get that information?
As it looks from LinkedIn comments, they still do.
This. Use Yahoo for your email, Verizon for your phone number, Dropbox for your backups, Facebook for your socials… It doesn’t matter which you choose, but fragment your digital life. When one part goes bad, it won’t infect the others.
Synology Diskstations are rather easy to setup and not very expensive.
Monthly or annual downloads though, can be scheduled manually simply by putting a note on your calendar.
If an account goes down, the thing you'll miss most may not be the recent things, but rather the many years of archives you might have in a Google account.
As for hosting... I just rent colo space and cut out all the cloud stuff.
Neo Backup - Currently maintained, and available on fdroid.
Titanium backup and restore - I don't think it is still maintained, but it still works.
Seedvault which does not require root can't backup a lot of things.
Depending on your phone, you may be able to backup everything with twrp, but it doesn't work with some new-ish phones.
It feels like they built it to say that you can, but your data is still just as locked as before…
If you have "too many" Google photos and that archive fails, create albums for every year, and only download a year/album at a time. It's a huge PITA, but at least you'll get your stuff back. (Kinda: depending on how you uploaded your photos, the metadata may come back truncated or altered).
Self-hosting mail, calendar and media is too complex task for 99% of population. This is not a solution.
Currently more or less adequate solution in terms of integration is self-hosted Microsoft Exchange. I wonder how much does it cost (including Windows Server license).
I don’t trust it to be more reliable than a paid service. The thing about self hosted solutions is you’re completely on your own if something goes wrong. You need to make sure you’re backing things up, that you can restore your Nextcloud configuration if your sql database takes a dump or you fat finger and delete some config files (I’ve done both). Or if you have a power outage or lose internet connection and can’t access vital files, or even something simple like a bad software update causing issues.
While a great option, one can’t simply spin up next cloud and then move everything over like you would a Saas solution as a typical layman.
If something goes wrong with your at home nextcloud, you still have the data/hw, and you can either get help troubleshooting from someone who understands what they're doing, or you can try yourself (which will take more time). You're not on your own. And even if you are, you can just shelve it, and defer the recovery for later. But unless it figuratively crashed and literally burned, you're not fundamentally prevented from recovering your data.