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Wow, that's sickly cheap! Seems to be owned and run by OVH France. But without encryption and private keys, i'd rather rent a server and use Duplicati.
by tmikaeld 13y ago
Wow, that's sickly cheap!
Seems to be owned and run by OVH France.
But without encryption and private keys, i'd rather rent a server and use Duplicati.
- dpacmittal 13y agoWell, you can always use LUKS, Truecrypt, EncFS or something similar. I'm more worried about data loss. How redundant is their storage?
- bluefinity 13y agoAccording to the website, they store copies in 3 different locations. > Data is copied in 3 seperate datacentres in France.
- mike-cardwell 13y agoPlus your own 1 or more copies of the data
- Already__Taken 13y agoIf you have enough devices yourself does it matter much? I'd take uptime over redundancy. I always have 2 work pc copies + 2 laptops going. As long as they don't sync empty folders back down I don't mind a services that's only got light redundancy.
- certainly_not 13y agoI can't understand how people trust (or even care about) server-provided encryption. There's no guarantee they or their friends can't open it on their servers. Unless you use your own solution, their encryption only provides protection in transit, against unaffiliated third parties.
- rdl 13y agoLink encryption is good, and it's helpful to ensure the only attack vector is the service provider itself, not sub-contractors or someone being stupid and throwing away drives. That said, Dropbox has done a pretty good job of lying about how much security they offered users in the past. But someone providing a service like this with a reasonable security policy which is openly communicated to the users is still better than no security policy.
- tmikaeld 13y agoWhen it comes to zero-knowledge encryption, it is hard to know how their implementation holds up without external audits. This is the same for other encryption applications (google Truecrypt audit). EVault, Wuala, Tarsnap, SpiderOak, Norton Zone, KeepVault, Jungle Disk, ElephantDrive, CrashPlan, Carbonite, F-Secure, Handy Backup, IASO Backup, MediaFire, MEGA, OwnDrive, TeamDrive etc.. ..all provide Zero-Knowledge encryption for their cloud backups, i think OVH should be able to at least the same.
- drdaeman 13y agoWhat's the point of "supposedly zero-knowledge encryption" if you can't even be sure it's there? If you care about your data security, you'd better consider there is no encryption in such cases. If you don't care - why ask for encryption at all?
- drdaeman 13y agoWhat prevents you from considering this as a bare storage backend to use with Duplicati or, say, TAHOE-LAFS?