Do you trust completely, your data is safe on cloud ?

[Futureized]

After all cloud is nothing but, storing your data on someone else's computer.
Do you rely on this backup medium completely?

What is your current backup strategy?

To begin:
1. I have all my data on a 2tb ssd always connected to main PC.
2. Important DATA on cloud
3. Planning to add 3rd option, but not very expensive (like external hdd, plug n play when required)

 

[harixh]

Relying on a single physical device isn't safe-you need a backup of your backup. An encrypted online drive ensures lifetime accessibility and protection against failures.

My strategy is simple. 1 ssd and always online backup whenever possible.

 

[Aaron Ventur]

Cloud is not your friend, it's just someone's computer. The secure way is to store your data on local devices.

 

[k660]

Do you rely on this backup medium completely?

i do rely on them but not completely. they can delete your data at given moment without any notice either.

What is your current backup strategy?

- wayback machine
- encrypted zip file , cloud
- another hdd but it's ext4 type instead of ntfs
- a clusterfuck, immoral way i wont specify here
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[whizzkid]

Also highly recommend kopia to anyone looking for a backup solution. Cross platform and supports de-duplication. It does encrypted backups as well which makes it great. I just created a mount using rclone to backup my most of the important items

 

[bssunilreddy]

After all cloud is nothing but, storing your data on someone else's computer.
Do you rely on this backup medium completely?

What is your current backup strategy?

To begin:
1. I have all my data on a 2tb ssd always connected to main PC.
2. Important DATA on cloud
3. Planning to add 3rd option, but not very expensive (like external hdd, plug n play when required)

I saved all family photos & Videos in Google Photos and data in Google Drive. All invoices that I have regarding in house all appliances & PC parts are saved a personal folder in GMail. Seems to be that I need to extend my Google One storage to 100GB now.
But I clear & clean my phone storage every month so that unnecessary photos & videos dont get uploaded to Google One storage.
I have a backup USB pen drive of all photos & videos but I fear that it might get corrupted after some time. All my 5-6 years old pen drives arent working now and sometimes does not even get detected. Thats why Cloud Storage is the way to go I think.

 

[TEUser2K1]

Seems to be that I need to extend my Google One storage to 100GB now.

How are services like pcloud for requirements like this since it provides lifetime option on single payment ?

 

[whizzkid]

I saved all family photos & Videos in Google Photos and data in Google Drive. All invoices that I have regarding in house all appliances & PC parts are saved a personal folder in GMail. Seems to be that I need to extend my Google One storage to 100GB now.
But I clear & clean my phone storage every month so that unnecessary photos & videos dont get uploaded to Google One storage.
I have a backup USB pen drive of all photos & videos but I fear that it might get corrupted after some time. All my 5-6 years old pen drives arent working now and sometimes does not even get detected. Thats why Cloud Storage is the way to go I think.

If u don't mind paid alternatives then something like Backblaze or Hetzner are amazing. I've used Hetzner storage boxes in the past and they work quite well with Rclone and other protocols.

 

[tirth0jain]

Data saved on cloud on major tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon is very safe from others, but 0% safe from the company itself who most likely use it

 

[ssingh]

There is one option which one can use is opensource https://cryptomator.org/ it will encrypt your data on the cloud the mobile versions are paid not not that expensive.

 

[sporkydork]

One way to ensure the security of your personal data on the cloud is to use an encrypted hoster like mega.io

Their paid plans allow you to store higher amounts of data and all of it is encrypted with your personal key. You can export the key to a text file and save it on the PC or an external drive which allows recovery in case you lose your password credentials. Free plans allows upto 20Gb of data and once you are convinced about the data - you can shift over to paid plans in case you require more backup space.

They have resellers who give accounts for lesser, I think we may find a few here on the forum as well.

 

[Heisen]

There is one option which one can use is opensource https://cryptomator.org/ it will encrypt your data on the cloud the mobile versions are paid not not that expensive.

There is nothing better than this option for cloud.