root is a user account that has all privileges and is what bots are programmed to probe, so exposing it introduces unnecessary risk. IMO there’s no reason to permit root login via ssh in any circumstance, ever, in all cases, absolutely.

For all the people thinking, “well the world doesn’t work in absolutes, there’s always a special case!” There isn’t.

If a user needs to use elevated permissions, there are many ways to do that without exposing root. sudo(8) is one way to do that.

IMO ssh is the tool you’re describing. My ssh server is exposed to the WAN and is configured like this:

• set to a random port to reduce spam (completely eliminated it for me)
• set PasswordAuthentication no
• set PermitRootLogin no

• Uptime
• Days since last system update
• Days since last CVE scan

So I recently quitted Google Drive

Congrats, great life choice

downloaded all my data and hoping to keep it on Hard drives myself, They are external plug in types

You have multiple external drives. Are they USB? How many?

So when I plug it in

Are they not usually plugged in? Is there a requirement to keep them air gapped between syncs?

it copies/syncs the things on my computer, anyone knows somethign like that?

Like others have said, a shell script that calls rsync is maybe the way to go and with some more information on number of drives, drive interface type, and air gap requirements it may change

Probably wouldnt use. I don’t monitor dashboards. I send myself an email when something needs attention. Then, if I find myself needing to check on something, I use ConnectBot.