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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by brandon272 »

xiphias2 wrote: post #70

Is there a Google Drive clone with encrypted backups? I love the usability of Google Drive (being able to access / make files offline whenever I want), but the Mac update started to force me to upload all my files, which I don't want to do, as the files are not encrypted.

The only Google Drive/Dropbox like service that I am aware of that does end-to-end encryption is:

https://www.sync.com/

The other solutions would be self-hosted (i.e. mounting an encrypted cloud drive using rclone crypt or using cryptomator in combination with something like Cyber Duck or Mountain Duck)

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by vanc_cefepime »

xiphias2 wrote: post #81
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Drive with rclone and the crypt layer ( https://rclone.org/crypt/ )?

It looks like a command line application, I'm looking for something with a great OS X, iOS, Android and web GUI (and happy to pay for it). Dropbox looks similar to Google Drive with the same problem (No E2E encryption)

Maybe https://www.arqbackup.com/ works for you? Has E2EE. As far as I know, it’s not open source, but the format is open. I use them to back up files from my Mac to Dropbox.

I also use Cryptomator but that’s just for regular files that I pull from different iOS device to Dropbox.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by aborsy »

doublepg23 wrote: post #60
wormer wrote: post #12

Speaking of this, does anyone know about any local backups for Linux with a nice GUI? I turned into a GNOMie and don't want to spend time with commandline options to figure it out. I tried APTIK but it flat out didn't work.

I’ve been using Deja Dupe for 4 years now for a local backup on my NAS. It’s extremely slow though, and I’d prefer fs level like ZFS or even btrfs at this point.

Deja Dup has recently offered Restic backend.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by Saris »

xiphias2 wrote: post #70

Is there a Google Drive clone with encrypted backups? I love the usability of Google Drive (being able to access / make files offline whenever I want), but the Mac update started to force me to upload all my files, which I don't want to do, as the files are not encrypted.

Nextclouds sync client has 'virtual files' where it only downloads stuff when you need it, or when you mark a file/folder as available offline.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by jeroenhd »

xiphias2 wrote: post #70

Is there a Google Drive clone with encrypted backups? I love the usability of Google Drive (being able to access / make files offline whenever I want), but the Mac update started to force me to upload all my files, which I don't want to do, as the files are not encrypted.

You can host Seafile yourself, which has end-to-end encrypted libraries[1] and version control. There are also hosted versions listed in their partners page [2] if you'd rather not manage that yourself. Apps are available for most platforms, I believe.

I don't know how good macOS support for FUSE style filesystems is these days, but you could work around the encryption problem by mounting something like an EncFS file system over your cloud drive (Homebrew seems to have it?). It'll make the files virtually inaccessible to other tools (like the GDrive web UI) but it'll protect your files and should keep away most unnecessary sync operations. I don't know if and if or how it conflicts with the GDrive application, though.

[1]: https://help.seafile.com/security_and_encryption/use_encrypt...

[2]: https://www.seafile.com/en/partner/

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by vorticalbox »

xiphias2 wrote: post #70

Is there a Google Drive clone with encrypted backups? I love the usability of Google Drive (being able to access / make files offline whenever I want), but the Mac update started to force me to upload all my files, which I don't want to do, as the files are not encrypted.

Maybe https://www.skiff.org/

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by [deleted] »

magicalhippo wrote: post #88
bimbashrestha wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's $9/computer so if you have another computer, you can't use the same 5 TB quota. I'm banking on most people having less than 5 tb per computer to backup. It's kind of like what Backblaze Personal does for their unlimited plan but slightly lower tier I suppose (since there is no way I could do unlimited).

You probably will want to have something to discourage the data hoarders. They might not be many in numbers, but they can rack up quite the TB count.

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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by evulhotdog »

wanderingmind wrote: post #85

Not to throw shades, but I think we have restic which is awesome for backup across multiple backends (through rclone). What is needed is a user friendly GUI to use restic for regular folks. I hope some one can use this framework to create a simple GUI for restic for windows/Mac users afraid of the terminal.

Check out Kopia. It’s very similar to restic in how it uses repos, and they’ve put some effort into a GUI too!
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