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Encrypted Time Machine on Mac OS is a good start. By no means a perfect solution, but it's free if you have an external drive (even an older one). If the drive
by kylehotchkiss 5y ago
Encrypted Time Machine on Mac OS is a good start. By no means a perfect solution, but it's free if you have an external drive (even an older one). If the drive is clean, the setup process will take under 5 minutes. I just run it once a month, putting an event in calendar to remind me to do the next.
If money isn't an issue, BackBlaze's options are interesting. Check out Arq backup too. Once you get either Backblaze or Arq backup, you can backup your backup drive of time machine images. Not terribly efficient, sure, but again, doesn't really require too much configuration. Minimizing friction for each step and trying to automate them are the best paths to success.
If this is a mobile device, iCloud for photos is a good enough options for most people. Yeah, apple's gonna scan, but so is Google Photos, or any other service that uploads images to the internet.
I really wish apple would do an E2EE time machine to the cloud one day! That would really unlock backups for a lot more less technical people.
- sircastor 5y agoSupposedly part of the on-device CSAM stuff was so they could do End to end encryption on iCloud backups. I get why people were upset about it, but I worry it comes at the cost of that E2EE feature.