@fribbledom I run servers at linode. And use their backup service. Technically, that is 'cloud' backup.

@fribbledom I tried to find an affordable cloud storage provider for backups and ended up with #hubic which is shit. It literally kept dropping parts of my backups, corrupting them. Even cancelling them was a hassle

@fribbledom I would consider encryption a solved problem, while availability, bandwith, and cost aren't.

@fribbledom i only like cloud backup for specific situations. If it's important data i rarely access, i am comfortable with a backup on a harddrive i don't use. Files I access regularly id rather keep in duplicate so i can access them at any time easily even with unstable connections. It's great for collaborative work multiple ppl need to pull from though!

@fribbledom When you specify "encryption," I would only consider it if the encryption keys never touch the cloud server. Everything gets encrypted locally then sent to "the cloud"

Assuming personal use ofc, if I were a business I'd use whatever so long as it makes my life easier and isn't uberbad

@fribbledom Honestly, for me this depends on what I am backing up. Some things I don't mind being unencrypted. Others I would want encrypted for sure. Most of my code is backed up to the cloud in an unencrypted format.

@fribbledom I used to use one of the big ones, but they switched to business-only.

At this point, my data set is so large (multi-terabyte) that I've switched to sneakernet.

I visit my folks to do laundry every week; might as well stash an encrypted drive there.

@fribbledom I presume this is "for documents and other personal files" and e.g. save files for video games? Because 'haha, no' on the former, 'sure whatever as long as local save file overrides and there is a local file' on the latter.

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Other.
(And solution to what??)

@fribbledom I’ve got a Rube Goldberg cloud backup system, but it’s still much preferable to not having an offsite backup at all.

@fribbledom if i have to... only with client side encryption. but i would prefer my nas at home ^^

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Spideroak FTW

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@fribbledom even with encryption you b have to be very careful about where the keys live; some of the commercial cloud backup systems had keys available to the operators.

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