Looking for non-US cloud storage. The more paranoid the better!
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I know you specifically asked for non-US back up solutions, but I honestly don’t think you can beat Backblaze’s personal tier, as far as pricing. $99 per year for unlimited storage. Solid company, I’ve been using them for years. If you are encrypting your backups, and following the 3,2,1 back up schema, should Uncle Sam grab your backup, it’s pretty much useless and you still have a couple backups in hand. You can encrypt with VeraCrypt or similar, and push that up the pipe to BackBlaze.
The caveats to using BackBlaze are, whatever you are backing up, has to be connected to the PC/Server. So, no NAS although someone here mentioned a work around for that, so if you go the BackBlaze, make sure you ask here what that option is because my frail brain cannot remember what the name of it was, but apparently it works well. Other such options would be rclone, Mountain Duck, ExpanDrive, or odrive. These are unofficial softwares, and can/could lead to termination of your account. Secondly, if you’re pushing aver 10 TB to BackBlaze and you need to restore, 10 TB is going to be a bitch to do online. However, you can ‘rent’ a HDD from BackBlaze. They’ll mail it to you, you restore your data, and send the drive back for a full refund, or keep it should you wish.
I receive no compensation from BackBlaze for this recommendation.
Just use client-side encryption, then it doesn’t matter where it goes
I can recommend Hetzner Storage Boxes. The company is located in Germany, but you can choose server locations in Germany and in Finland. You can set it up with Rclone’s Crypt feature to encrypt all your files.
+1 for Hetzner
I’m using restic to encrypt my files (content + filenames)
TIL rclone can encrypt. Storage box also supports borg if someone prefers. Borg is cool. It also deduplicates the archive saving a lot of space.
Not pricey, e2ee clients, open source, servers in Germany, 10gb free tier to try them out. Been using them for a few years now. The clients used to be a bit crap but they’re very good now.
I haven’t found how to connect Filen’s S3 to BackRest… the only thing keeping me from using the 110 Go I have with them to double backup my local backup on another drive.
Then don’t go to the cloud! (or use encrypted storage if you really have to)
My view: Unless I can access the hardware 24/7/365 the data isn’t mine for ‘they’ can deny me access to my data anytime while they keep full access. (hence store it decryped)
A hard drive in a PO Box; data encrypted. Retrieve it occasionally to sync it with your local storage.
Or family.
This is good, if they:
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- Understand & trust what you’re doing and don’t fiddle with it
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- Don’t understand and just don’t fiddle with it
Luckily I have a family member that fits one of those categories.
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Syncthing and an old android device with a big ass ssd connected
if this is for privacy i’d just use the cheapest/fastest option that supports rclone and use its encrypted upload feature.
This. Assuming you are following the 3,2,1 schema, if the big, bad American boogie man gets it, it will be encrypted (useless), and backed up elsewhere.
I use filen and koofr
Why both? Any preference?
- shadow.tech (fast, not so expensive)
- Proton Drive
- or look for a managed Nextcloud solution (Murena Workspace, etc.)
As the prices widely varry by storage size, you may want to add a size estimate, but i can say that anything above a couple tb is probably more expansive than finding a selhosted solution.
