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Kind of related, I was recentl thinking about making some backups of valuable (emotionally speaking) things like wedding pictures. Currently they are backed up

Kind of related, I was recentl thinking about making some backups of valuable (emotionally speaking) things like wedding pictures. Currently they are backed up on my local machine and my server, but was considering cloud options. My wife does use Google Drive (paid account w/ Chromebook) but I don't feel that comfortable with Google things. Does anyone have good alternatives that perhaps respect privacy? :)

mkj 8y ago
Arq Backup works well as long as you remember your passphrase.
ztjio 8y ago
Services dedicated to this purpose like Backblaze and Crashplan allow/enable, maybe even enforce client-side encryption. In some cases, you have quite a lot of control over things like the keys and precise encryption settings.
vwelling 8y ago
Quite happy with Backblaze for exactly this reason, as it allows you to set your own private encryption key. That they're quite reasonably priced doesn't hurt either :)
Gnurou 8y ago
You cannot assume that any remote storage provider will respect your privacy. So you will need to encrypt on your end. With that in mind, borg backup does a great job at archiving/compressing/encrypting. Then you can sync to GDrive or any other service using e.g. rclone.
kmlx 8y ago
I wouldn't dismiss Google. I personally use both Google Drive and GSuite. The ability to search inside the files of your whole library (documents/pdfs/videos) is very useful, while the integration of gmail + Drive + Docs bumps your productivity.
- pjc50 8y ago
  How does it achieve searching inside photos and videos? Have they been fed to the machine classifier so that if I enter "Poland" it will try to show me my holiday photos from there?
  - rrdharan 8y ago
    Yes.
  - tinus_hn 8y ago
    That’s easy, photos have location metadata already. But does it also support searching for people and objects?
    - wstrange 8y ago
      Yes. Google photos recognizes landscape features as well as people.
monochromatic 8y ago
Tarsnap.
mikro2nd 8y ago
With Google -- and especially considering recent history -- I be worrying about when this product is going to be end-of-lifed.
- therealdrag0 8y ago
  If they OEL a storage platform, surely they'd let you export it fairly simply, and you can transfer it to another provider.
mark_l_watson 8y ago
I tend to manually back up digital assets to Google/Dropbox/OneDrive by Zipping by category with good file naming protocol including date, GPG encrypt the Zip files, and not depend on the trustworthyness of cloud providers. ‘Deep backups’ Also, high value digital artifacts like my book projects and customer work get backed up automatically to remote git servers. I seldom do local backups anymore on my MacBook to TimeMachine, perhaps once a month, and for backing up my Linux laptop I only back up to multiple cloud providers and git remote services.

mkj 8y ago

Arq Backup works well as long as you remember your passphrase.

ztjio 8y ago

Services dedicated to this purpose like Backblaze and Crashplan allow/enable, maybe even enforce client-side encryption. In some cases, you have quite a lot of control over things like the keys and precise encryption settings.

vwelling 8y ago

Quite happy with Backblaze for exactly this reason, as it allows you to set your own private encryption key. That they're quite reasonably priced doesn't hurt either :)

Gnurou 8y ago

You cannot assume that any remote storage provider will respect your privacy. So you will need to encrypt on your end. With that in mind, borg backup does a great job at archiving/compressing/encrypting. Then you can sync to GDrive or any other service using e.g. rclone.

kmlx 8y ago

I wouldn't dismiss Google. I personally use both Google Drive and GSuite. The ability to search inside the files of your whole library (documents/pdfs/videos) is very useful, while the integration of gmail + Drive + Docs bumps your productivity.

pjc50 8y ago
How does it achieve searching inside photos and videos? Have they been fed to the machine classifier so that if I enter "Poland" it will try to show me my holiday photos from there?
- rrdharan 8y ago
  Yes.
- tinus_hn 8y ago
  That’s easy, photos have location metadata already. But does it also support searching for people and objects?
  - wstrange 8y ago
    Yes. Google photos recognizes landscape features as well as people.

monochromatic 8y ago

Tarsnap.

mikro2nd 8y ago

With Google -- and especially considering recent history -- I be worrying about when this product is going to be end-of-lifed.

therealdrag0 8y ago
If they OEL a storage platform, surely they'd let you export it fairly simply, and you can transfer it to another provider.

mark_l_watson 8y ago

I tend to manually back up digital assets to Google/Dropbox/OneDrive by Zipping by category with good file naming protocol including date, GPG encrypt the Zip files, and not depend on the trustworthyness of cloud providers. ‘Deep backups’ Also, high value digital artifacts like my book projects and customer work get backed up automatically to remote git servers. I seldom do local backups anymore on my MacBook to TimeMachine, perhaps once a month, and for backing up my Linux laptop I only back up to multiple cloud providers and git remote services.