Hi everyone,

I would like to ask your opinions on reliable cloud storage providers for media. I have a media collection that isn’t too big (about 2-3TB) that I’d like to store on the cloud since I’ll be moving in the future and don’t think I can handle multiple hard drives.

What do you suggest? Any issues I should be looking at? I came across Wasabi too, along with the more expensive Scaleway and Cloudflare R2 offerings. For now Backblaze seems fine in terms of reliability, but has anyone come across complaints from them regarding what is stored on their servers?

Thanks!

  • ScrubblesEnglish
    25•9 months ago

    I won’t comment on legality of anything, but if you encrypt your data it’ll be impossible for anyone to tell what it is. Rclone has an option to do this.

    • @MigratingtoLemmyOPEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      Can I do incremental backups with rclone whilst encrypting it?

      • @solrizeEnglish
        11•9 months ago

        Idk about rclone but you can do that with Borg backup.

          • @[email protected]English
            5•9 months ago

            But Borg does not work with object storage, it needs a borg process on the receiving side.

            • LaggyKarEnglish
              10•9 months ago

              Another alternative then would be Restic. That’s what I’m using for backups

              • @sudneoEnglish
                3•9 months ago

                Or rustic! It is compatible with restic but has some nice additions, for example the fact that supports a config files. It makes operations a bit easier IMHO (I am currently using both).

              • @[email protected]English
                1•9 months ago

                I’ve used restic before and it worked great with OVH’s object storage. Moved away from cloud backups because of the cost though.

        • @MigratingtoLemmyOPEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          Do you create one large binary blob or do you encrypt each file separately?

          • Scrubbles
            2•9 months ago

            separately, that’s how I can maintain partial backups. The rclone crypt stuff is good at keeping track on huge amounts of files quickly

    • @[email protected]English
      0•9 months ago

      I could be wrong, but I remember reading some companies using AI to analyze your data traffic. Even when encrypted, they may be able to tell that it must be video streaming of some sort. Many providers ban video streaming altogether, legal or not.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•9 months ago

        Sounds like OP is asking about file storage. Video streaming could be spotted using info leaked regarding traffic behavior. But uploading an encrypted file for storage shouldn’t leak anything except the size.