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!

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.

          • maiskanzler@feddit.deEnglish
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            8 months ago

            But Borg does not work with object storage, it needs a borg process on the receiving side.

              • sudneo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                8 months ago

                Or rustic! It is compatible with restic but has some nice additions, for example the fact that supports a config files. It makes operations a bit easier IMHO (I am currently using both).

    • matcha_addict@lemy.lolEnglish
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      8 months ago

      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.

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Sounds like OP is asking about file storage. Video streaming could be spotted using info leaked regarding traffic behavior. But uploading an encrypted file for storage shouldn’t leak anything except the size.

  • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.