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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Connect is awesome. The fact that it is only a month old and that good is honestly mind blowing and it’s totally free with no premium options or ads. I have really enjoyed using it up until now.

    I’m a previous Sync for Reddit user though and I do love the app. The customisation options are insane. I can literally make it look and act exactly how I want, even down to things like specifying download locations for pictures, whether they go into subfolders by community, whether pictures show up as media files in your gallery or are hidden, the spacing between comment lines, etc… It’s also customisable by account if you have multiple accounts, so all of this can be different or the same for each account.

    So once you spend some time setting it up, it almost feels like you’ve designed your own interface/app.

    It’s hard to beat.






  • I have been with idrive since 2009. At the time they were the only ones that allowed backups of network attached storage on their cheaper personal plans. Everyone else saw that as an “enterprise” feature which required a business plan. Which was bullsh*t, because lots of home NAS devices were being sold.

    Anyway, I haven’t done a recent comparison of services, but I remain happy with idrive.

    Thesedays I no longer backup on a computer with a mapped drive, but directly from my NAS which runs the idrive software.

    I had a catastrophic dual drive failure a few years ago, one failed and another failed during the raid rebuild! I was able to restore about 1tb of data and didn’t lose anything important.

    They also offer backup and restore by shipping a drive to you if you want to avoid the huge initial backup or a total restore, but I haven’t used that feature.

    They do also have a mobile app, but last time I tried it, it wasn’t great.