rclone
Command-line program to sync files to cloud
Episodes
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#5000: Can You Trust Google Photos With Your Life's Work?Why your Google Photos library isn't really backed up — and what actually works instead. -
#4739: NFS Unmasked: Versions, Gotchas, and Hard TruthsNFS isn't one protocol—it's a succession of them. Here's what's really happening under the hood and where it breaks. -
#4704: Building a Unified AI Filesystem with Rclone and MinIOHow to build a single virtual filesystem for AI agents across multiple cloud storage providers — without the token headaches. -
#4452: YouTube Backup Pipeline: RSS + yt-dlp + WasabiBuild a free, reliable pipeline to auto-download and backup YouTube videos using RSS feeds, yt-dlp, and cloud storage. -
#4379: One Filesystem to Rule Them AllMerge Google Drive, S3, and NAS into one browsable tree on your phone. -
#4080: How Resumable Uploads Actually WorkWhat happens when your file transfer fails at 92% — and the app just picks up where it left off. -
#4073: Private Buckets, Pre-Signed URLs: Self-Hosting Without the CompromiseHow to keep your self-hosted images secure, accessible, and cloud-friendly without becoming the product. -
#3466: Digital Archiving for Freelancers: Workflows & RisksWhy "keep everything forever" is more dangerous than "delete nothing" for small businesses. -
#3033: 3,000 Episodes, 3 Copies: Is This Backup Setup Enough?Three copies, two clouds, one NAS. But is this setup truly protecting 3,000 podcast episodes? -
#3024: How to Incrementally Back Up Google Photos to Your NASBuild a quarterly backup pipeline for Google Photos using the Library API, hash deduplication, and your NAS. -
#2799: Where Should Your Images Actually Live?WordPress to static sites: where do images & videos go? Repo, object storage, or CDN — and when to move up the chain. -
#2694: When AI Agents Write Your Backup ScriptsBorg, Restic, and Kopia compared for whole-server incremental backups on Ubuntu Docker hosts. -
#2438: The Folder Illusion: How Object Storage Fakes HierarchyBlobs, flat namespaces, and why those "folders" in cloud storage are complete illusions. -
#1924: Ending the Manual Update LoopStop manually copying files. Learn how to host your own authenticated repositories for .deb and APK files using simple static web servers. -
#1594: The Soul of Your Machine: Automating What MattersStop manually configuring your PC. Learn how NixOS, Ansible, and Chezmoi turn your desktop into a reproducible, automated recipe. -
#1475: The Folder Illusion: Why Cloud Storage Breaks Your Mental ModelFolders are a lie in the cloud. Explore why Amazon S3 uses flat namespaces and "keys" instead of traditional file hierarchies. -
#849: From URLs to Content Hashes: The Real Web 3.0 ShiftExplore the shift from location to content-addressing as we dive into the real-world state of Web 3.0 and distributed systems in 2026. -
#796: Can Your Data Legally Leave the Country?Explore the shift from a global cloud to localized data sovereignty and why legal jurisdictions are the new physical borders of 2026. -
#770: The Ghost in the Machine: How Rclone Mounts the CloudEver wonder why cloud mounts stutter? We explore the engineering of Rclone, FUSE, and the quest for infinite, fluid remote storage. -
#636: The Hidden Costs of Ultimate RedundancyCan a decentralized network replace Amazon and Google? Herman and Corn dive into IPFS, content-addressing, and the risks of "forever" data. -
#410: Redundancy Is Not a BackupWhen a 7-year-old server dies, the recovery is a wake-up call. Discover why RAID isn't a backup and how to build a resilient "Server V2." -
#235: Digital Fingerprints: The Secret Math Saving Your DataLearn why those random strings of characters on download pages are the only thing keeping your files safe from corruption and hackers.