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3 copies is great, but is one of them offsite? Without an offsite location I can't consider my personal data safe, and offsite is generally harder if you are bu
by giobox 4y ago
3 copies is great, but is one of them offsite? Without an offsite location I can't consider my personal data safe, and offsite is generally harder if you are buying your own disks/using local storage. If all three copies are in your house, you are still vulnerable to thefts/acts of god etc, regardless of who owns the disk the data is sitting on.
Personally I think local storage is a bit of a losing battle for long term personal backups; the running costs of expanding and replacing disks at 28tb size start to get significant if you do it properly with offsite compared to the range of affordable encrypted cloud backup services out there, many of which let you provide your own private key for storing the data encrypted at rest on their side (how I use backblaze right now for all my machines).
I'm honestly not sure I could do local storage well at less than the $65 per computer per year I pay Backblaze - one new drive a year for a NAS is already more than I pay Backblaze annually before other costs and my time to maintain are factored. While I'm not accusing you of this, my experience is many people running their own NAS do so because they enjoy running their own NAS if they are totally honest with themselves, not because its necessarily the best or most convenient option.
- silicon2401 4y agoI do keep one copy offsite. However, I'm not against cloud backups, I just prioritized setting up my local setup first so that I'm not dependent on the cloud. If I have 2 HDDs + backblaze and one HDD dies, it would be a pain to download 10TB of data from backblaze to set up the replacement HDD. I totally understand your point about running a NAS and I've actively tried to avoid setting one up. My storage system is entirely external HDDs. I want to expand to a NAS in the future but that'll be for fun, not backup (at least until I can afford 3 separate NAS instances for backup). That being said, do you have any advice on how to encrypt data before uploading to cloud? I'm not at that stage yet so I haven't done deep research, but I've heard of things like veracrypt/truecrypt? And I've heard enough good things about backblaze (and enough bad things about other companies like google) that I'd be comfortable going with them if the price is in my budget and if I can just figure out the encryption angle.
- giobox 4y agoWith backblaze its as simple as typing your own private key in a box on the app preferences page, assuming you trust backblaze etc- that's all thats required to encrypt your backups such that backblaze cant decrypt them server side. The caveat is of course if you lose that key, you lose access to your backups and there is nothing Backblaze can do to help. > https://www.backblaze.com/backup-encryption.html https://www.backblaze.com/backup-encryption.html - scroll to "Adding your own passphrase"
- pseudalopex 4y agoYou have to let them decrypt to restore. Scroll to Restoring when you set a passphrase.