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I have a home cloud hard drive that was great for about a year. used to back up laptop, desktop, and phones. now i can't get anything out of it. i guess i missed a mandatory update? tech support is no help. so i gotta figure out how to recover my data.

also looking for a new back up option. i don't need fancy. just bullet proof reliability. i don't want to get network certified...i just want to keep my data backed up.

thanks in advance for your time.

I have a home cloud hard drive that was great for about a year. used to back up laptop, desktop, and phones. now i can't get anything out of it. i guess i missed a mandatory update? tech support is no help. so i gotta figure out how to recover my data. also looking for a new back up option. i don't need fancy. just bullet proof reliability. i don't want to get network certified...i just want to keep my data backed up. thanks in advance for your time.

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As far as external drives go I'm a fan of the WD Black Game drives. Seagate Expansion also has a decent HDD inside for a relatively good price.

If you want easy... Get yourself a raspberry pi, an external drive and install OpenMediaVault (OMV). Local or public SSH, SMB/CIFS, NFS, FTP, RSync, etc... Perfect for a local backup solution and an easy to use web ui.

https://www.openmediavault.org/

https://forum.openmediavault.org/