What cloud services do you trust

[skyking1]

Condolences, that is Terribad.

 

[Jadera]

I can't imagine gaming on that wifi let alone doing important stuff.

 

[Marcel]

I can't imagine gaming on that wifi let alone doing important stuff.

We did, back in 2006.

 

[Jadera]

We did, back in 2006.

Well I'm glad I wasn't born back then

 

[Marcel]

Well I'm glad I wasn't born back then

There used to be a life without internet, you know? Recently I'm starting to believe that might have been the better life.

 

[special ed]

We had the library & library cards. No copy machines, so info had to be copied by hand, pictures traced. I still have some notebooks somewhere.

 

[Howard Gibson]

Having lost some 8tb of data, including from the incremental backups I was keeping, I have now decided to try a cloud backup on top of my on site backup hard drives. Where we are at present the fastest internet is 25mb but in reality for much of the day it struggles to get 10% of that. It is fastest between 23:00 and 04:00 when most people are asleep.

Can members who have cloud backup please provide the pros and cons of the service they use.

My preferences are to avoid any service that is:

• associated with an AI company (because they cannot be trusted - far too much confidential information between users and AI providers ends up in the public arena and/or in court) See my post yesterday in AI Fails.
• owned by an American company (the Aus government found 4-5 years ago that confidential information that US vendors were storing for the AU government was being stored in the USA, not AU, and was accessible by the vendor and US governments.

Not negotiable is that the service supports Linux.

GNU/Linux user here.

I don't trust any cloud service. My valuable information is stored on my local hard drive, which has recently transmogrified into an SSD. My first backup device is a 4TB hard drive, every night. I have a Blu-ray burner that does double density, so I can write 50GB onto a disc whenever I feel like it. These are stored in my basement. I could move these to a bank security box, depending on how I feel paranoid.

Dead retailer's 'customer data' turns up on seized kit, unencrypted and very much for sale

I have just noticed your 60TB. I hope you have a good reason for storing 60TB of stuff. The only thing that is going to work is tape backup. This is expensive as hell. I hope you are making money off of all this.

I archive my digital photos to DVDs. Until they are archived, they are backed up, so I have multiple opportunities to recover stuff from disaster. This keeps my backup to 50GB.

 

[Marcel]

GNU/Linux user here.

I don't trust any cloud service. My valuable information is stored on my local hard drive, which has recently transmogrified into an SSD. My first backup device is a 4TB hard drive, every night. I have a Blu-ray burner that does double density, so I can write 50GB onto a disc whenever I feel like it. These are stored in my basement. I could move these to a bank security box, depending on how I feel paranoid.

Dead retailer's 'customer data' turns up on seized kit, unencrypted and very much for sale

I have just noticed your 60TB. I hope you have a good reason for storing 60TB of stuff. The only thing that is going to work is tape backup. This is expensive as hell. I hope you are making money off of all this.

I archive my digital photos to DVDs. Until they are archived, they are backed up, so I have multiple opportunities to recover stuff from disaster. This keeps my backup to 50GB.

So what will you do if your house burns down ( or in my case more likely to be under water)? That's the reason why I backup my backup to the cloud. But then a cloud I know and trust.

Btw, once I was about the only Linux user here, good to see more of you, nowadays.