I toasted my computer yesterday....trying to build some local packages for TROMjaro. I think the scripts from those packages deleted parts of the system...idk... Tried to restore with timeshift but it has a bug with encrypted disks....so I could not restore the boot on the main encrypted drive. Struggled for a few hours, then finally did it. Luckily I have lots of backups and even my system backups are on a separate drive.

Now I am setting up cloud backups too, for my most important files for now. Tried s3 object storage and am so confused and seems to cost a lot. Managed to easily connect to my nextcloud account (files.trom.tf) so that I am managing it via this account, plus I get full encryption. But after syncing some 1k files out of 1 million, I realized it is fucking expensive and hard to calculate how much it would cost.

At least I tried it for when we will need it to expand our peertube storage...

So I looked a lot and a lot. To find a cheap solution that doesn't ask me how many files I upload and how often. The cheapest I found is mega.nz - for like 5 Euros for 400GB, but can extend to 2TB for just 10 Euros, and 8TB for 20 Euros. Has end to end encryption and only a monthly bandwidth limit.

For example with object storage you even pay when files are requested. So say I use nextcloud to do the backups. Now nextcloud gets the files from my computer and sends to the object storage location, but nextcloud also indexes the files, that means it asks the object storage how many files there are and such. And I get charged for that. Considering I want to backup several million files, this is not cheap.

Anyways, I want to maybe have my files somewhere in the cloud too. Nextcloud is an amazing alternative but the only downside for me is storage. I either buy a storage VPS or attach some object storage solutions to nextcloud. None is cheaper than Mega. They can be 5 times the price.

Anyway....I have to take care of my files. I have so many projects and such. #tromlive