John Siracusa

And so at this point, I feel like if I were to leave Synology's ecosystem behind, I think the only thing I would really miss is Synology Drive, which is the kind of faux Dropbox that I use.

And I've talked about this on and off over the years.

Well, one of the great things about the Synology Drive application is that not only does it, you know, you are your own cloud, which for me in this context, it's a feature, not a bug.

I can make an argument in the opposite.

But one of the great things about it is you can use Synology's, I think it's Cloud Sync, to take your Dropbox and basically put that inside your Synology Drive.

So when I want to upload like the file that I'm recording right now to Marco for him to process later,

I don't have Dropbox running on any of my computers, and I haven't for like five plus years.

I simply put it into the Dropbox folder within my Synology drive and in the appropriate folder in my Dropbox in the drive root, and it will go ahead and sync that to Dropbox's cloud so that then Marco can pull it down.

And that's worked incredibly well.

I think I can replicate that with some open source stuff.

It isn't quite...

quite as slick and it isn't quite as nice but the combination of oh shoot what was it um sync thing and something else shoot i forget what the other one was oh our clone sync thing in our clone

Um, the two of them put together, if you squint are kind of sort of what Synology drive and Synology, uh, cloud sync does.

Uh, and I did trial that like a year or so ago and it did do the trick.

I just, like I said, I don't love it quite as much as I like drive, but at this point I am in a position where I think I can divorce myself with the Synology and be okay.

And at that point, Marco, we're going to have to figure out what the virus virus lap is used for.

It's funny you bring that up.

There is, what is it called?

Proxmox Backup Server, PBS, I believe, where it has its own mechanism for doing this.

And basically all of that is going onto the Synology.