Hi everyone,
I would like to ask your opinions on reliable cloud storage providers for media. I have a media collection that isn’t too big (about 2-3TB) that I’d like to store on the cloud since I’ll be moving in the future and don’t think I can handle multiple hard drives.
What do you suggest? Any issues I should be looking at? I came across Wasabi too, along with the more expensive Scaleway and Cloudflare R2 offerings. For now Backblaze seems fine in terms of reliability, but has anyone come across complaints from them regarding what is stored on their servers?
Thanks!
I won’t comment on legality of anything, but if you encrypt your data it’ll be impossible for anyone to tell what it is. Rclone has an option to do this.
Do you create one large binary blob or do you encrypt each file separately?
I could be wrong, but I remember reading some companies using AI to analyze your data traffic. Even when encrypted, they may be able to tell that it must be video streaming of some sort. Many providers ban video streaming altogether, legal or not.
I’d say encrypt before upload using rclone or similar, regardless of what provider you choose.
Oh absolutely, I was just wondering about the way I should do it: encrypt the entire thing into a binary blob, or each piece of media encrypted separately?
I like cryfs for this purpose:
Cryptomator is far more mature for this purpose with far better cross platform support: https://cryptomator.org/
encrypted separately like by album you can, even have rclone change the name and use hashes then it does not matter what you use long as they’re keep your data safe. also it is best to keep a copy in the EU and US if you can.
Use encryption if you are concerned.
I wrote a WebDAV server you can use as the frontend for it that can encrypt everything you upload.
https://hub.docker.com/r/sciactive/nephele
There’s something I’m using that Backblaze doesn’t support, so I’m fixing that right now.
Edit: Ok, I fixed the issue and updated it on Docker. It now works with Backblaze. It’s a bit slow, but I’m not sure if that’s just my connection or Backblaze.
For a short period of time, nobody will care, especially with almost zero traffic.
But for only up to 3tb, you can easily fit that on a single drive.
Hey on that 3tb thing… can I pick and choose folders or parts of folders from the backups?
Or, say, I want to move stuff around in folders… is that possible after the backup has reached them and is only visible to me through their web interface?
Depends a lot on what backup software you use. Blackbase B2 ist just an S3-like object storage service. It’s the underlying software stack of many different things, one of those can be backup software. They do have their own backup solution though. But in that case B2 is the wrong product for you to look at.
