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Re: PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution

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Post by simias »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #17
simias wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tarnsap is for backup, I don't think it can really be used for sync in the general sense. It's also hard to predict how much it's going to cost you if you don't exactly know how much data you're going to upload (and is IMO prohibitively expensive for even moderately-sized backups). I love the tech behind tarnsap, I love that the client is open source, I love the whole philosophy of it but I really struggle with the p…

> the client is open source No, it's source available.

Ah, you're correct of course. Thank you for pointing it out.

Re: PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution

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Post by rsync »

ZeroCool2u wrote: post #27

There are a number of alternative paths in this space if you're truly focused and willing to invest a bit, but if you care about privacy enough to seek a service like this out and just want to minimize mental overhead, this seems like a good choice. Tahoe-LAFS makes some impressive claims like maintaining confidentiality while running on untrusted machines. I think a lot of folks now would assert that really any mach…

"There are a number of alternative paths in this space if you're truly focused and willing to invest a bit, but if you care about privacy enough to seek a service like this out and just want to minimize mental overhead, this seems like a good choice."

It feels to me like 'borg'[1] is becoming the de facto standard for this use-case. There were a number of similar tools (like duplicity) for years but borg seems to have buttoned up all of the issues.

Some call it the "holy grail of backups".[2]

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[2] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

Re: PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution

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Post by andreareina »

StavrosK wrote: post #25
moviuro wrote: post #7

FWIW, I've been using syncthing [0] for some years now [1] and am very pleased. Even though my data is unavailable on the cloud from any untrusted computer (like e.g. my corporate laptop), it's synced on my "fleet". I'm not sure that PrivateStorage actually adds anything to the equation? EDIT> The Tahoe LAFS [2] model is more that you spread your data over multiple providers. NAS at home, several VPS providers, or wh…

Given how rock-solid Syncthing has been, I wonder how hard it would be to bolt encryption onto it so anything that some specific nodes receive is always encrypted.

It wouldn't be only specific nodes, but would something like encfs[1] work?

[1] https://github.com/vgough/encfs

Re: PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution

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Post by StavrosK »

andreareina wrote: post #46
StavrosK wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given how rock-solid Syncthing has been, I wonder how hard it would be to bolt encryption onto it so anything that some specific nodes receive is always encrypted.

It wouldn't be only specific nodes, but would something like encfs[1] work? [1] https://github.com/vgough/encfs

Unfortunately that's harder than just always leaving a Raspberry Pi on at home, especially given that I want to be able to sync files to my phone, where EncFS probably doesn't work at all (or easily).

Re: PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution

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Post by drakenot »

StavrosK wrote: post #25
moviuro wrote: post #7

FWIW, I've been using syncthing [0] for some years now [1] and am very pleased. Even though my data is unavailable on the cloud from any untrusted computer (like e.g. my corporate laptop), it's synced on my "fleet". I'm not sure that PrivateStorage actually adds anything to the equation? EDIT> The Tahoe LAFS [2] model is more that you spread your data over multiple providers. NAS at home, several VPS providers, or wh…

Given how rock-solid Syncthing has been, I wonder how hard it would be to bolt encryption onto it so anything that some specific nodes receive is always encrypted.

It has been requested since at least 2014 [0] and it just sounds like it isn't going to ever be a feature of Syncthing.

The ability to have untrusted nodes is the one feature that has kept me using Resilio Sync.

[0] - https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/109

Re: PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution

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Post by Chilinot »

scott00 wrote: post #32
moviuro wrote: post #7

FWIW, I've been using syncthing [0] for some years now [1] and am very pleased. Even though my data is unavailable on the cloud from any untrusted computer (like e.g. my corporate laptop), it's synced on my "fleet". I'm not sure that PrivateStorage actually adds anything to the equation? EDIT> The Tahoe LAFS [2] model is more that you spread your data over multiple providers. NAS at home, several VPS providers, or wh…

How much data do you sync? I'm syncing 60 GB with NextCloud and it annoys me frequently: every time I log in it spends 5 minutes scanning my data, pegging at least one core of CPU and using up a lot of my I/O capacity. And of course at a pretty annoying time, since I almost always want to be actually using my machine during the first 5 minutes after logging in. And I'd really like to be syncing more data. Anyway, won…

Im using Syncthing as well, and in my Syncthing dir on my laptop there is currently 52 GB of data.

That includes a synchting-share for my automatic backups and my "dropbox" replacement (a simple directory for syncing between phone, and computers).

It works great. I haven't had any issues with it. The current release of syncthing is very stable. Earlier versios were a bit error prone. But they seem to have fleshed out most, if not all bugs i encountered in earlier versions.

Re: PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution

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Post by andreareina »

StavrosK wrote: post #47
andreareina wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wouldn't be only specific nodes, but would something like encfs[1] work? [1] https://github.com/vgough/encfs

Unfortunately that's harder than just always leaving a Raspberry Pi on at home, especially given that I want to be able to sync files to my phone, where EncFS probably doesn't work at all (or easily).

I'm unfamiliar with syncthing, but could you run two daemons, one that does encrypted sync to e.g. dropbox, and one that does plain sync to your phone and such? Or would the two instances stomp on each other or get into an infinite loop? e.g.:

    plain  syncthing  phone
      ^
      |
      V
    encfs  syncthing  dropbox
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