I saw a tech news article about a cloud storage provider reducing their rates ( https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/dropbox-like-cloud-storage-service-shadow-... ) and this reminded me that I've been thinking about using cloud storage as backup ... so long as it's encrypted with a key that's on my side (only). A quick search pointed me to "rclone" ( https://rclone.org/ ) which sounds outstanding if their self-promotion is to be believed. The fact that rclone is included as a standard package in Debian stable goes a long way to convincing me. Ironically, "Shadow Drive" isn't one of the providers that rclone lists themselves as working with. This seems like a good starting guide (and makes rclone look fairly straight-forward). I haven't used it so I'm uncertain of its accuracy: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/05/how-to-encrypt-cloud-storage-files-wit... My current backup systems live and die by 'rsync', so I'm quite familiar with a program rclone seems to be partially based on. I've been trying/hoping to move to 'rsnapshot', although it's kind of a PITA (but good). I use Fedora occasionally, but mostly Debian. This has left me with so many questions, to which I would happily take any and all answers: - is rclone good? - is rclone easy to use? - does rclone handle encryption of remotes (mostly) transparently? - in particular, is mounting remote encrypted cloud drives as local drives fairly easy? - what cloud storage providers have you used rclone with? - do you recommend a particular cloud storage provider? Why? - do you disrecommend a particular cloud storage provider? Why? -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com