What is your favorite online storage?

Privacy Tools Providers & Services
#3

What kind of online storage? From the FOSS ones I prefer, I mix up Syncthing for some private documents and for public IPFS.

For some examples on what I have there, my website has IPFS.csv with a list and issue on some more I should advertise on a separate page. I especially like how I don’t have to store binary files on Git and if my chosen gateway would go down, it’s one (or three) line(s) to change in _config.yml.

I hear that Tahoe LAFS would also be good for storing private files and if I just had to share a private file, I would probably try OnionShare (onion) with Lufi (Disroot example) as worth mentioning.

#4

good drive with encrypted files

#5

I use onedrive and cloudmounter to encrypt the data.

But I also have created a "fog"storage with some friends.
We have a local machine at each home which encrypts the data of a network share and sends it to the others, so we all have redundant offsite backups.

#6

When it comes to features Nextcloud and Seafile are great. Too bad theit E2EE is not so good. Therefore, I choose to use Tresorit, even though it’s closed source program

#7

I’m genuinely curious. What have you heard about nextcloud’s e2ee? How are you able to verify Tresorit’s?

EDIT: I now use Nextcloud w/ e2ee.

#8

I only take in consideration to encrypt my files before uploading them to some cloud.

#9

For file syncing I use Resilio Sync. I don’t use any cloud storage, everything is stored on at least one of my own devices (typically my NAS). Cloud storage doesn’t seem super necessary.

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#10

I like to have one additional backup in case of emergency (lost phone, robbed apartment, natural disaster, etc…).

@shilu
I had issues with Nextcloud with E2EE enabled. It just didn’t work on PC. And I couldn’t login from mobile app. I remember there was some workaround for that, but I don’t want any workarounds :slight_smile: Maybe it’ll be better with new client app versions

#11

That’s a pain. Thanks, I thought you knew of some weakness in the encryption :slight_smile:

#12

I have most of the stuff on my NAS, but there still are things that are in this funny Spot:
To important to not have access to, but for some reason (most of the time size) not important enough to keep them permanently on my device and just use syncthing (which I use as well)

An other point with NAS is, they might be a security risk in your home network as well, and they are expensive. I have an EMC 6 bay NAS and I don’t recommend that to anyone who just wants a regular backup

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#13

This is the main reason I use Resilio over Syncthing: Selective Sync. I can have everything stored on my NAS, share the folders with my other devices, and have fine-grained control over what actually ends up on them.

#14

I stand up an internal NextCloud server that’s only accessible from a VPN connection. That is pretty much what I do for a living. Mailbox plus Cryptomator is completely fine depending on your security stance. If you are hiding all of NSA’s secrets, then I would never stick put my data on a cloud storage. If you are putting encrypted password databases up there, you should be fine.

#15

Any alternative for Google photos?
To be honest I really like that pics can be easily shared with friends or family. I can search by keywords like dog, car etc so I can easily find old pictures.
But after all those privacy concerns I would really like to switch to another provider.

#16

I generally don’t store anything of importance on clouds. If I do I use veracrypt and any cloud service.

#17

Yep, Cryptee… Note that new pricing structures are coming soon per the developer

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#18

gSuite business account + rclone w/ crypt. unlimited storage is great, but the inability to upload due to Google’s rate limiting is infuriating as all hell.

I used Tresorit for a while and liked the idea (and it worked well), but never adapted it as it was limited to 2TB.

I supposed a ~few bare metal servers @ hetzner w/private ipfs will be what I end up doing eventually.

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#19

Thanks for the gsuite idea. What do you mean exactly under the term “rate limit”?

#20

Wow that’s pretty good till I checked the price :frowning:
For photos I use around 85GB on Google photos. Here it would cost me 27$/month, damn expensive, although the service really could substitute Google.

#21

Google basically limits how much, or how fast you can transfer data into/out of their storage service. The errors are documented by Google here – scroll down to 403 error rate limit exceeded. And as you can see, Google’s suggestion is to batch uploads, or basically slow your roll. Boooooooooo. There’s a fair bit of discussion around this I’ve seen discussed within the rclone groups - e.g. this post.

But… for unlimited (for now) storage at $10/month, it’s hard to complain.

#22

Is on privacy forum.
recommends google.
hol’ up.

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