On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 12:18:25PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
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?
Personally I use rshapshot for backups with a target being a linux server at my parents house and then they backup to mine the same way. No cloud providers, nothing complicated, it just works and it's automatically offsite. Of course it's great for making a backup of your data, it is not for making a system backup should you need to restore the system, but I don't consider that to my a big task in general. I also tend to use at least RAID1. -- Len Sorensen