canion
canion

@matpacker Dropbox for all-hours access, NAS with WebDAV for at-home sync of non-mission critical databases.

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galexa
galexa

@matpacker iCloud but mainly for inbox. I also have a couple of small databases but just for reference. I wouldn't recommend it as it keeps breaking for me.

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jbytes
jbytes

@matpacker I've used Dropbox and iCloud for the Sync Store location in the past, but now I use WebDAV on my Synology. I have Gigabit speeds at home, so it's faster than iCloud or Dropbox syncing, especially initial downloads. Mine were about 75% faster on initial download and subsequent syncs were probably 25-50% faster.

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jemostrom
jemostrom

@matpacker iCloud

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canion
canion

@joshsullivan Do you use WebDAV outside the home? I couldn’t get it to work, plus the security risks worried me. This does mean that I get consistent WebDAV sync errors when my iPad can’t connect when not on my home wifi though.

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jbytes
jbytes

@canion I do use WebDAV outside the home, and I've not had any issues, other than a small power outage we had for about half an hour one day in town. I'm not so worried about the security risks, because when I posted to the Synology forums, they were beneficial in explaining the right steps to protect yourself. 1. Port Forwarding, I have port forwarding, so the public port is forwarded to the NAS as a different port (private), to get even crazier (secure?), you could set the port forwarding on the NAS to take the port from the router and forward it internally to a separate port, but I don't really see a benefit to it. 2. Restrict to a specific account with limited access: I created a user for WebDAV and only gave it permissions to a particular shared folder, so there isn't any security risk with the account used.

I'd be happy to give you some pointers for setting it up, and it wasn't too hard once I understood the ports after I got them sorted, it worked perfectly. My NAS is connected to via a custom domain, which you can easily do now including a Let's Encrypt cert. Then for the WebDAV URL, it's the same but with the port appended to the URL: [nas.example.com](https://nas.example.com:1234).

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canion
canion

@joshsullivan Thanks for that, I might have to give it another try. Does it still work when you are back on the home network? I recall some troubles I had with trying to get a port forwarded connection to work while on the LAN.

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jbytes
jbytes

@canion I've not have any issues at home, I use the same connection settings for my home Mac, although it might be a little faster if I switched to my internal IP address for the WebDAV, but so far using the custom domain with the external port has worked great. On my iPhone and iPad I also use the custom domain because I take those devices with me everyday, and again never had an issue with the LAN/WLAN. I do have a Synology Router, but I don't think that will matter, because the only thing you change is the port forwarding rules on the router, and every router should allow you to create port forwarding rules.

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matpacker
matpacker

@joshsullivan that’s some fast internet access, definitely makes sense to go WebDAV!

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matpacker
matpacker

@galexa I had a similar experience, which has made it difficult to get into DT, versus the simplicity of Evernote...but of course, Evernote has its own, well documented, issues

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canion
canion

@joshsullivan I noodled around with my WebDAV server and got it sort of working. But I didn't have a lot of confidence in it. Then I realised I am a Fastmail customer and they offer 10Gb of WebDAV storage! Rate limiting is making initial upload a little frustrating, but once I get the initial sync done it should work well. And it seems faster than Dropbox. Not as fast as local, of course, but not bad. And easy configuration.

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galexa
galexa

@matpacker I just use Evernote as a small (free!) temporary store because the web clipper still seems best. I clear that into DT periodically on my Mac. I also use Dropbox if I want to OCR an iOS screengrab into DT (Hazel moves it from DB to DT-OCR folder when my Mac is awake). Too many inboxes maybe :-)

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jbytes
jbytes

@matpacker the best part was when I switched to gigabit speeds from 250mbps ups/down, my bill went down $10 USD a month. Telecoms in the US suck, but when you live in a market (Massachusetts) with competition, it really does help.

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matpacker
matpacker

@galexa eeep, that’s a reasonable amount of shuffling files around! Totally agree about the Evernote clipper though, even on iOS it’s better. The other thing I need is cross-platform compatibility, I work on iOS, Mac OS, Windows, and some times Android, so Evernote is ticking a lot of boxes for me.

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