Cloud storage (encrypted)

Mp4

Mp4

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Hi all,

After using Google/Dropbox for a while I feel the need to upgrade to a more secure hosting company ( I store people's wedding photos ) on external and cloud solutions as well as vidahost.

So have been looking at encrypted storage but I've not really heard of any?
 
I know that Google / Drop box have to give encrypted keys to NSA/Goverment etc so want the security really.
 
I sure there is a UK based company. MDNX/Easynet (boo hisssssss) started using them white labelled as themselves for cloud backup solutions and the company underneath were really good.
 
You can easily use a VeraCrypt container on your local machine to work from and sync the container itself up and down to your "cloud" provider that you currently use.

Or this is useful information:
https://www.privacytools.io/#mycloud

Seafile (Hosted from Germany) is your "easier" replacement solution to the likes of Dropbox or G Drive but I would recommend you go down the route of OwnCloud and create something you are happy with and confident with. There area heaps of providers to choose from and if you want to avoid what you mention above, of course avoid American hosting completely, which is easy :)
 
mrkev said:
How about using something that works with dropbox/drive? Boxcrypt or sookasa come to mind.
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This, the free verson of boxcrypt will encrypt the files but not file names. But do file names really matter as long as they cant be opened? :)
 
xdcx said:
Or this is useful information:
https://www.privacytools.io/#mycloud
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Thanks for that site xdcx very handy!

As for the OwnCloud

I want to store photos off site I have currently 10TB in external storage(over 3 drives) in my house shall have a microserver setup next year to eliminate those three and use 1 for off site and have every 6 months of my lightroom catalogue folder and leave it at my in laws.

still very undecided ill take a look at Boxcrypt also.
 
Mp4 said:
Thanks for that site xdcx very handy!

As for the OwnCloud

I want to store photos off site I have currently 10TB in external storage(over 3 drives) in my house shall have a microserver setup next year to eliminate those three and use 1 for off site and have every 6 months of my lightroom catalogue folder and leave it at my in laws.

still very undecided ill take a look at Boxcrypt also.
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No worries :)

I think a good shout if you do have the privacy/security concerns would be to maintain your external storage drives as your off site regular backup and configure a HP microserver or similar with a proper RAID array plus setup your own hosted OwnCloud on that Microserver. That way you are not in the hands of any external hosting, you manage and access your own data completely and you can control the external access as you wish.

It'll cost you a bit of money to spec up and get a disk config to handle that much data in a resillient fashion, but you will save over time considering the costs of external provided hosting. Definitely worth investing in and doing properly since this is a business essentially for you with your photography. Plus it's a cool and interesting project to work on :)
 
You may want to take a look at www.ceejay.net (they use code42's software).

The software client runs on windows and mac and supports a 448-bit data key for encryption. Hosted in Amsterdam (was Dublin originally but they moved).
 
KIA said:
Encrypt before you upload.

http://www.duplicati.com/
https://www.arqbackup.com/
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Ive been trying out ARQ to backup to amazon cloud drive (unlimited disk space) but it just seems really slow. Try'd asking for help on twitter and they answered me once and then never again. Good job i was on a trial but i cant really recommend them for support.

Do you know if duplicati supports amazon cloud drive?
 
KIA said:
Not at the moment. :(
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Ah that sucks :( I'm finding it really hard to backup to amazon cloud drive as they only provide that app that does uploading by dragging into it.. I mean who uses them these days :P They should have a proper app that presents it as a folder or network drive or something.
 
Why not just encrypt the files you put into your dropbox folder?

Even 7z can do AES-256 encryption, you could just store the pictures by wedding in one .7z per wedding (no compression, so it goes faster) and dropbox/Google Drive/etc will upload the encrypted files.
 
I've been archiving via 7z 256 as suggested and moved to SpiderOak :)



But have seen ARQ used a few times when doing searches on ocuk

Any good?
 
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