Comment by salil999 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by salil999 | Hacker News Reader

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Apple solves this problem well! Note that I use iCloud family which allows me to share the storage with my family. But for going down the list:

A) Mint for most financials. iCloud for storage of documents.

B) Apple Health for keeping track of my records. For ad-hoc stuff I use iCloud to store the documents.

C) Product and service info I use iCloud for. Logins and credentials to them are stored in my family's 1Password vault.

D) All legal documents stored on iCloud.

E) For photos and videos I use iCloud Shared Albums. It's unlimited free online storage of photos. Otherwise it's a mix of iCloud storage and the Notes app on Apple devices.

Obviously you can tell I'm deep in the iCloud ecosystem but personally I feel it's worth it. The synchronization and ease of use for my family is well worth it. For what it's worth I'm on the 200GB plan.

What do you do for recoverable backups? I also use iCloud for everything important but haven't figured out a good, automated system for full backups.

I guess the first question that comes to mind is what exactly are you trying to back up that can't work with iCloud?

thanks for sharing - for Mint, are you willing to type in your password to provide access to your other services/accounts? that has been a security bridge too far for me to date :) also, are there runners-up to Mint?

You give them read only access, the financial API ecosystem is extremely well defined and provides advanced access control. I'm pretty sure you just log in to your bank account and they establish read only access. I would be shocked if Mint stored these logins, I don't think they can do that.

do you use syncing? because if so, then i thought this wasn't a good backup strategy?

for example, my photos could get deleted on my iphone accidentally and that change would sync with all my other devices and that data would be lost forever.

I guess that is a risk I'm accepting. For what it's worth, for photos specifically, Apple keeps them in a deleted folder for up to 30 days. But I'm pretty careful with my digital content and I would much rather them be synced.

that's brave! i don't want any margin of error for my backups.

what happens if all your files get deleted from your computer and then they're deleted from your trash can in the same instance?

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