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JPortici:
Semi rant: i'm going to upgrade to a new phone soon, i've grown tired of china phones with crappy android ports and cameras that will apply heavy filtering without you being able to disable it (takes a foto, look at it. five minutes later, it's different. A filter has been applied. Or move the camera one millimiter on the right and it decides that the green has to become green yellow, can't turn it off, can't get around it.)
Also, i will use it for app develoment so i need to be able to run the latest crap google has to offer, my choice is going to be one of the Pixels.

The problem is, besides the lack of headphone jack (but i get wireless charging! who cares!) there is also the lack of MicroSD, and i have a history of destroying phones, though the last two are actually still intact, they have only grown too old (camera has been bricked, samsung forced the output from png to jpeg in which you can easily see artifacts, xiaomi is making photos slightly worse every update, deliberately blurry)

(end of rant)

I'm used to swap cards, also for backups. But i'm not going to be able anymore. I plan then to do a weekly/monthly backup, but i would also like to have a daily backup in case anything happens.

I'd like to avoid google drive because google has enough information already, also i have several folders there that had their content corrupted, and i've even read about google drive recompressing your photos. Both things have been reported by others as well, but i can't find sources at the moment.

What other options do i have?

Halcyon:
Google Workspace or a paid Microsoft 365 licence.

The paid services of both are about as secure as cloud platforms get and are completely different beasts to their free consumer counterparts. I personally use Google because so much about Microsoft's ecosystem shits me.

Karel:
https://proton.me/drive/free

RoGeorge:

--- Quote from: JPortici on October 27, 2022, 06:21:58 am ---What other options do i have?

--- End quote ---

An encrypted offline HDD.  For redundancy, two or more disks in a ZFS array.  If you travel, keep a small SBC online for backups only, at home or in another safe location.

Online services can be hacked, can sell your data, can steal your files, can be monitored/interrogated/censored by various authorities, can change their owner, can apply extra fees later, can be cut away from you by politicians, can go belly up, and so on.

If you care about your backups then cobble your own solution.

tom66:
An encrypted service where only you have the key.

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