queztion for my fellow gam-devs

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

queztion for my fellow gam-devs

is there an inexpensive service where I can 1) pay them money to 2) store files 3) privately 4) with a firm guarantee that they will not use them to train "models"?

I usually put my projects in some kind of free revision control system as a cheap form of offsite backup, but I'm at a loss of what to do with all my blend files and images

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

tbh I'm fine with "Copy of Copy of Final (3).png" as a revision control system for binary media

[halcy@icosahedron.website]

@aeva I use Borgbase for offsite backups, was kind of a pain to setup but now that it runs, it runs, and I'm pretty much happy with it. I'm on the 1TB for 80USD / year plan, which as far as I am concerned is a decent price, may have to switch to the next tier up at some point this year as my data needs grow but

[halcy@icosahedron.website]

@aeva they're not really meant for like. random access. but you still can basically just pull any file from the backup, with versioning as you configured it [this is the part that I found A Pain]. Backups are encrypted, so no one is training Fuck All on it. No web interface to nicely browse anything like dropbox or whatever, though, if that's a type of thing you would want.

[halcy@icosahedron.website]

@aeva blender Save Incremental my beloved

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva get a mini desktop pc with sata drives, install nas software and you own everything
https://hexos.com/

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel what happens if my house burns down

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva phone a friend for offsite

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel can i borrow ur nas

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva if I had one maybe :3

[eleanor@booping.synth.download]

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place may not be the best suggestion but you can always pay a VPS provider and run your own nextcloud (or similar software) instance.

and/or encrypt your files before upload. you can't train on encrypted data even if you wanted to. veracrypt is the easy option i know of but almost any encryption works.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel u should get a nas

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva someone needs to pay me so I can afford a rack

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@halcy I use it often lol

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel *hands u a ¢*

[halcy@icosahedron.website]

@aeva i do kind of wish there was just like. An Infinite or at least very long term undo list in blender instead. Like what if if just snapshotted the state of the file every 5 minutes with some reasonable amount of deduplication and you could just browse that like a timeline or use it later for timelapses. Wouldn’t that be sick

it‘s probably not feasible but *wouldn‘t that be sick*

[gyrosgeier@hachyderm.io]

@aeva Hetzner Storage Box, that comes with SMB/CIFS access, so it's a normal network drive, and you can use it as a target for the builtin Windows Backup and File History functions as well.

Besides access speed and latency, it's the same as having a local NAS box.

[code_disaster@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I'd probably go with something like Hetzner's Storage Box, but I don't know how far you get with e.g. 1 TB for the small version.

I could also see me setting up a VPS with syncthing for easier folder syncing to my local PC, but those usually come with a lot less drive space.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@GyrosGeier what's the ¢

[jalict@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eleanor @aeva this does require some initial setup but honestly with s3 object storage (literally any provider) it is like 1 command to upload and 1 command to encrypt..

but like if you dont roleplay devops in your pasttime you might need like 30-60 mins of hand holding the initial setup.