 Hey guys, welcome back to Daniel's Tech World on YouTube Medium and at DanielRosal.Tech. So what I want to just quickly demonstrate in this very quick screen share is a perfect demonstration of, I talked about moving stuff up old emails in a previous video, how to just compress those into folders if you don't need a folder anymore in your Gmail or 10 or 20 folders and they're just taking up space with a bunch of emails that you need there. Firstly, they're taking up space. Secondly, they're clogging up your email. You don't want to see them. You're done. I use the example of an old account if you're freelancing, but for, you know, compliance purposes and just as a best practice, you want to retain them. So I discussed in a previous video how to just basically run a Google Takeout, just capturing those folders, move that up to AWS S3 where you can put them in very, very cheap cloud storage, just so that they're just in case. Now, what I want to show is another thing, another use case for this kind of, let's call it a best practice. This is a folder I use pcloud as one of my cloud storage locations and this isn't to save space. I have plenty of space there. It's just because I like to keep it relatively clean the stuff I'm working on at that particular time. So this is a folder, but I do everything on the cloud, as everything as far as possible I do on the cloud. So this is a folder I keep here. You can see instructions and user manuals. I've actually just put this over to the NAS, but basically, you know, about, I do this approximately every two years. I'll clean up my pcloud and just whatever I can archive goes into archiving. This is just a folder of a scan, either using an actual scanner or using my phone instruction manuals. If I can find the manual on the internet, I will just, or if it's on the internet anyway, I'll just like grab it. And if you can see here, it's some random, random stuff I brought from the internet over the past year. It's all PDFs. You have UPS instruction, you have writer instruction, you have electric brush cleaner, 4G manual. So this is an example, this random 4G writer that I bought is just, I'll just, actually, that's a bad example. Let's take instead this HDD enclosure, which I bought in a computer store here in Israel. A few weeks ago I just used it for the hot spare video and I couldn't find the manual anywhere online. I have no idea what brand this is. I just care that it works. So what he did is I came to assist a product insert, so I just quickly scanned, you can see, and just created a quick PDF. So I never really expect to need to refer to this documentation, but I will keep it anyway just as sort of a data retention practice. So I added that into my folder and that's basically what everything in here is. It's all these user manuals. Let me now bring over the NAS, which is currently up running and healthy. And you can see here that I basically built out a, I've created a volume called cloud buckets, cloud backups, B2 buckets, and then I've just created using cloud sync jobs running between the various buckets and these folders on the computer. So basically, I just created folders for, I created a B2 bucket called pcloud archive files. And I just put in this anything in pcloud that's taking up space that I don't really need to refer to. So there's instruction and user manuals here. And what I've just done is in this 0.7.20 folder, I've just gone ahead and basically dropped in everything. Once that upload is completed, I've deleted those in pcloud. Then basically, once as soon as I drop those in, the cloud sync starts running, this turns up to, you know, the progress button. And then I can just check in B2 to see that they've gone up there. So I've just dropped into back plays B2 here in the web UI. And I'm doing this basically just to make sure and just for demonstration purposes. So you can see it's built out the folders now. The sync is currently in progress. All the stuff's moving up. Let's take a folder. The biggest one, five electrical appliances here has 12 megabytes. And you can see that the PDFs are in there, the ones same ones you've just taken a look at there. So I can see now that the HDD enclosure manual has synced up. So I've just downloaded this, just taking a look. And I can see that it's successfully there. So, you know, just if I'm running this process, I usually do a couple of spot checks just to make sure that everything has synced correctly. That's basically it. That's a workflow, as I said, for if you want to keep your day to day cloud storage like Google Drive, pcloud, whatever box.net dropbox, you want to keep them relatively lean, clean of clutter, and anything you're just keeping for long term archiving. I recommend that this is three to one backup compliant. It's sitting on the NAS and it's also gone up to the cloud. So this is just a way of, you know, you could also achieve this by backing up the archive stuff to a external hard drive, and then just like syncing that up to the cloud through whatever mechanism on your computer, but the Synology NAS makes that process particularly easy. So as I said, the use case here is keeping your main cloud device lean for stuff you're actually working on at the moment. And when you no longer need files or stuff like user manuals for a hard drive enclosure, then you can just go ahead and put those up to the cloud. It's something, something suitable for long term archiving and storage. Backlays B2, Wasabi, and AWS 3 Glacier would all be perfect for this use case. So thanks for watching the video. Anyone of them would like to get in touch can do so through my website at danielrotel.co.il. Thanks for watching.