Hi! I’m looking for a good cloud storage provider for my backups. I will encrypt them locally and rclone them, so integration is important. I’ve been looking through reddit, and every single provider has something behind their ears (closes accounts, scans files, sketchy, blah blah blah), so I’m having a bit of an analysis paralysis.

Free tier would be ideal. I don’t need a lot of space, just a few GBs. Thanks :)

  • Micheal@lemmy.ecliptik.com
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    7 months ago

    Restic + rclone [1] is a good combination. Supports encryption, versioning, dedupe, snapshots etc. When I looked into offsite backups a couple years ago I was originally focused on the cost for storage but then realized data transfer costs can add up too.

    After doing evals on S3, Wasabi, Backblaze and Hetzner with Restic I ended up going with Google Drive. Flat annual price and no data transfer fees. Since Restic does all encryption locally I’m not worried about what the Big G can see.

    1. https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#other-services
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      7 months ago

      Oh wow, brilliant. Gonna have to do some testing with restic. Looks like I could use it to roll my own Crashplan-to-friend that no longer exists