My backup hard drive crashed and I won't be able to afford a new one for a long time, so I want to upload an encrypted copy of my files on a cloud service for the meantime.
I'm already using MEGA, but I'm worried that it could get closed like Megaupload, so what's a good cloud storage service that you think is going to last a long time, and that won't delete my account for inactivity or for having multiple accounts?
Thanks in advance.
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1TB is ~45 USD op
How big is your back up?
It was 1TB.
Now I have none. Just one copy of my files (and whatever is on MEGA).
I can't afford to buy another one because I'm dirt poor and my situation won't allow me to have a job for at least a year, and even if I found a job today, I'd still need a cloud solution until I can afford a new drive.
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My impression is that cloud storage is some expensive shit.
what he said
be user
>makes a yandex account
>yandex disk is just 10GB but mail is unlimited
>goes to mail, makes a draft, file limit is 2GB/file
>makes a 50GB draft and archives it, goes back to disk still 10GB available
and so on.
Thanks Yandex
I'm talking about making multiple accounts on a free service.
I don't need anything fancy or expensive, since I only need to upload the archives once and leave them there untouched (only to redownload them one time when I get a new drive).
Get cloud from mail.ru with 1TB free, fill it up.
What do?
Go to mail, make draft mails 1GB/file, 20GB/draft.
Mail.ru has unlimited mail storage.
Neat.
Gonna look into that.
Does Yandex ban easily or they don't care?
you can also preview those files in the draft like avi,mkv,pdf,dox,open zip
Thanks. Going to look into that as well.
Like with Yandex, do they ban you easily for things like that (or inactivity or multiple accounts)?
Good to know, but I'll encrypt everything before uploading.
Why would they ban you?
You're not braking any rules.
Inactivity idk.
Multiple accounts NO cause they even allow you to use more at the same time.
You can also share individual files in the draft mails by getting a link, that also surprised me desu.
They might ban you if you share copyright files in forums and such.
I just upload TV shit but yea it's a good idea cause one day those files might get flushed on a hash filter based on copyright.
Chink cloud in the shit:
weiyun limited their free storage from 10TB to 10GB
yunpan.360 offered 36TBs free, after 30 this month they're cancelling all their free service, 36TBs gone.
>MEGA
Mega is like Rapidshare, because it's a filesharing site it's a target and always under attack, so one day you may find it not working EVEN IF YOU PAID .
That's why I'm downloading everything I can from MEGA before it's too late. It's still the best piracy filelocker for free users (with megadownloader of course).
Once it's gone one day, there goes most of the working links for non-premium file lockers.
The chinks had huge ideas with their cloud services:
you could remotely download files to your clod with a direct link, you could download torrents in the cloud, preview everything.
Most of the shit is gone.
They removed the remote downloading, and haven't worked on the playing of files, they still use flash just like they did years ago, some are almost shutting down.
Chink cloud is dead and baidu sucks.
Nice.
I'm interested then.
Thank you, but I don't really like Chinese services because I'm always afraid of something going wrong and not being able to do anything, since I don't understand anything, I know nothing about how those companies operate, and it's harder to find info on them that's not in chinese.
I'd rather make many accounts on a service I trust more and have the peace of mind.
I know. That's exactly why I'm worried about it.
Sometimes I see people posting HUGE archives of various stuff that they've uploaded to archive.org.
How does that work?
Can I upload my encrypted stuff with cryptic filenames, or does it have to be stuff that interests the collectivity or something like that?
If you want unlimited storage you can pay $60 a year for an Amazon cloud storage account
Yandex is like google in Russia, if they say your email has unlimited storage they can just remove your files without a good reason.
If anyone wants to know about Chimikuj they had a branch in Spain, or France and one shut down in a matter of days, reason:low profit so don't trust them.
Also uploading stuff to flikr, you could remux files to mp4 and upload them but the 1GB file limit is not cool. Use Xmedia recode it takes a few seconds to change container.
You have to make a site first and let archive.org index it, what kind of files were those.
for 80$ you could get a 2TB drive and own your shit forever... or until you die.
So what do you think is a good reliable service?
I'm looking for a free solution right now.
Amazon cloud drive is cheap $60/yr for unlimited storage. It's not simple to use it as a backup service if the Dropbox like client doesnt fulfill your needs, but it's popular enough that there are good open source tools for it that can also handle client side encryption. Just be prepared for some googling and reading.
>You have to make a site first and let archive.org index it
Are you talking about their wayback thing?
It wasn't that. It was literally just the files.
>what kind of files were those
Don't remember exactly, as I see them rarely and last time was months ago, but I do remember that a couple of those times it was for non-pornographic libtaries of stuff from /t/ (and I'm not sure but I thing their server seeded the file's torrent as well).
Services that belong to huge companies: like google drive or onedrive but those are shitty, the free ones but also the paid ones cause you have to pay.
Just don't go with small companies or that are too good to be true like the chink ones were with their free TBs.
So go with the ones like yandex, mail.ru, flikr.
I don't use google photos cause I like to keep the original but if you don't mind their encoding.
You can use other mail servers, split the file and make a draft, scene files are already split.
Were those large files cause if small then who cares?
I just made an account.
You can upload stuff there.
I'm sure you wouldn't do this but make sure you don't store your crypto keys on the main hardrive you're backing up. If the HD fails, you'll loose your keys, and your backups will be worthless. Use a pair of flash drives or something.
Nice digits
The problem with the failing HD is that it's always plugged in.
Just keep you important shit in your HD but safely remove it and keep it in a dry box .
They were hundreds of GBs and maybe in the TBs.
IIRC they weren't single huge files, but folders full of smaller ones.
You can upload there and there seems to be no file limit I'm uploading 12GB bluray encode right now
Thank you for the advice. I'll keep that in mind.
What do you think about Google Drive?
I already have many Google accounts, so it'd be easy.
Would my files be safe on there?
I don't upload the entire drive image. I do individual folders, so in case I need something I can simply log in and download it.
For important and private stuff I use keyfiles and keyphrases.
For unimportant stuff I just make encrypted 7zip archives.
Cool
Let us know how it goes
my only problem with cloud storage is that even if I use the latest encryption, if it is ever broken in the future those files are public
As I said: they might, at some point, just like other filesharing service ALREADY DID, run a filter with the hashes of copyrighted material and delete those files.
So just archive them and don't share them with a lot of people.
And keep in mind that google likes to snoop around .
But if your files are legit they'll be safe for a long time, I guess.
Speed is bad 2Mbps, it's not using my upload.
cloud storage is not like filesharing, you have to choose to share them and to create links.
>But if your files are legit they'll be safe for a long time, I guess.
Good, since I always encrypt them with 7zip and use cryptic filenames, so I don't think they'll match the hash of anything copyrighted unless the gods decided to punish me by giving me extreme bad luck I guess.
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You can always layer.
Just make big periodic archives of your important files and encrypt them many times, each with a different program, algorythm, and password/keyfile.
As the outermost layer you can have winrar or 7zip make it into small easy to manage files, then upload those.
It'd be so much harder for all those different encryptions to be broken, than using a single one and relying on that, then finding out it's been rendered useless one way or another.
Do that and at the end make a split archive and keep one part of the archive on a thumb drive and upload the rest.
There's no way someone can reconstruct the archive without the missing piece.
There was a guy here a few months ago that had this plan where he would encrypt his files with truecrypt, then encrypt that archive with 7zip (set to output many 10MB files), then take the first and the last of those archives and somehow scramble the rest, then encrypt them with winrar into any 10MB pieces (while also keeping the first and last of them while scrambling the rest), and re-encrypt that with something else I don't remember (this time outputting bigger files that he would upload).
This way he's basically keeping 20 to 40 megs of critical files (first and last of archives, which contain the important data for the extraction) that he would place with the others as he extracts the files.
I'm not sure whether it's a good idea or not, but I don't see how anybody could be able to access the files even with all the passwods and keyfiles, and backdoors in all the software he used.
The files would simply be too corrupt to be opened at the end of the chain.
Found the thread:
warosu.org
nice read
Google Drive and OneDrive.