On 11/13/24 1:39 AM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 13/11/2024 à 03:19, Jeffrey Taylor via openSUSE Users a écrit :
I backup to Amazon Web Services S3. A few dollars a month for off-site backup.
I tempted some time ago to subscribe to a very cheap online backup system, cheap because not immediately available as recovery
but the test period showed that bandwith was not usable. It would have needed more than a year to upload my 5TB data.
so I use pcloud, a swiss cloud where I could have 2TB data for 350€ life time, one payment only. Of course life of me or the company... At first seing the web site seems pretty expensive, but if you subscribe they advertisements they do quarterly discount. The maximum for an account is 10TB. Nextcloud like with some changes
but, of course, no system is problem free, so the need to have several.
upload speed is acceptable but one can't expect more than 100Gb a day as average
in french, but deepl is your friend :-)
jdd
I am really, really, really, really jaded on using commercial anything. With the daily list of companies pwned and data dumped on the dark web, it's just like rolling dice. Yes, AWS is supposed to use best-practices, but given the number of attacks I have coming from their VMs, they don't. Then there is the whole VM leakage side-attack thing to worry about. I've gotten to the point where I basically believe data out of your direct physical control is data subject to compromise. And just today "data breach - Amazon confirms employee data exposed in leak linked to MOVEit vulnerability" https://go.reg.cx/tdml/dfd67/675cca7f/caf7f115/4f0R -- Yikes... (a few other companies or sites supposedly employing "best-practices" in the spotlight during the past few months: npm typosquatting (not a direct npm chain compromise, but a risk to any user that doesn't spot the subtle name differences), Columbus Ohio prosecutors database, United Healthcare, Gryphon Healthcare, Pypi supply chain, HIPAA patient consent forms (Servicebridge), Flight Aware, National Public Data (that hurt a lot of folks in the US due to SS# being the primary key in much of that data - from the late 90's when everything was SS# associated)) (all articles from The Register) I was actually about to sign up for a free oracle vm, it had enough storage to be usable, but got to the point of entering credentials, and found Oracle uses 3rd-party verification and payment processors, so you never get to square-one before your personal data is sent out who knows where. I'm never comfortable just rolling dice. What a wonderful digital world we have created where dishonesty and ID-theft are a daily reality. You wouldn't put up with being robbed each morning on your way to the car, but we, as society, can't seem to do anything about the electronic robbery taking place on a continual basis. This is a vexing issue. Perhaps AI and quantum cryptography will solve all our problems.... um, I'm not holding my breath... I mean I was literally thinking about this issue and reply when the Amazon breach dropped... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.