[ale] Cloud Storage recommendations?

Jim Kinney jkinney at jimkinney.us
Sat Jan 21 16:01:12 EST 2017


And there's backblaze. Their cloud product is Linux friendly.

And they write cool papers on hard drive longevity and how to build your own version of their huge storage boxes.

On January 21, 2017 2:00:01 PM EST, Jonathan Meek <jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com> wrote:
>Haven't tried it but tarsnap might be an option. Encryption on done
>locally, only you have the master key and an ability to pre-pay.
>
>On Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 9:38 AM dev null zero two <dev.null.02 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> amazon cloud drive unlimited with rclone and encfs
>>
>> Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and
>punctuation.
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2017 5:56 PM, "Jerald Sheets" <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you don’t foresee having to get it all back all the time, and
>speed
>> isn’t as much an issue as money, you can try Amazon Glacier.
>>
>>
>> > On Jan 18, 2017, at 1:00 PM, Jeff Layton <laytonjb at att.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > I saw that quote as well :)  I've just gotten tired my doing my own
>> backups and was thinking about the Cloud. I know AWS has the ability
>to
>> encrypt data at rest and use SSL for data transfer to/from S3. You
>can even
>> use your own keys which is attractive.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Jeff
>> >
>> >> Saw this quote on /.
>> >>
>> >>     The cloud is someone else’s hard drive attached to someone
>else’s
>> >> server in someone else’s data center at the end of an Internet
>pipe
>> >> controlled by someone else. If that works for you – and it might!
>>> >> great. But do be aware of what you are doing.
>> >>
>> >> – by sphealey
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 01/18/2017 01:29 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>> >>> Good afternoon!
>> >>>
>> >>> This is a little off-topic but only somewhat. I would like to
>keep a
>> >>> copy of file from several of my systems, including Linux and
>Windows
>> >>> systems, in the cloud with some replication or protection. All
>told,
>> >>> it's maybe 1.5 TB or so (not too much) but alot of files :) I
>won't be
>> >>> accessing the files - it's more of a live backup than anything
>(I'm
>> >>> tired of doing my own backups).
>> >>>
>> >>> I want to be able to do something simple such as,
>> >>>
>> >>> cp -r * <bucket>
>> >>>
>> >>> with whatever command line tools are out there.
>> >>>
>> >>> I've been using Amazon's S3 standard for some time. The current
>price
>> >>> for 1.5TB in us-east-1 is $35.21/month (actually not too bad).
>> >>>
>> >>> I tried Backblaze b2 but the tools are pretty clunky, it's not
>> >>> redundant, and using their help system is an exercise in
>frustration (I
>> >>> would enter the captcha correctly but when I hit submit it would
>tell
>> me
>> >>> that the captcha was wrong. Plus there is no good way to email
>them).
>> >>>
>> >>> Any other services I should be checking?
>> >>>
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