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I hoard because shows, youtube videos (youtube-dl) and websites disappear. I use some GTD methods to organize my data (e.g. folders a,b, c...z) I use recoll to find data https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

I would like to use an online backup service but I would like to have my data encrypted.

I tried https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

But data throughput to an encrypted storage was abysmal. I tried several methods, even included running an encrypted filesystem in a 10TB file. I tried https://www.cryfs.org/ but nothing worked good and reliable.

I looked into https://www.infomaniak.com/en/kdrive/ but the encryption method seems like snake oil.

Any suggestions?

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You can keep a local Borg repository (https://www.borgbackup.org) and copy it anywhere in the cloud with something like https://rclone.org.

To quote the website, BorgBackup gives you:

- Space efficient storage of backups.

- Secure, authenticated encryption.

The encryption is performed on your machine, and you don't need any special features from the provider(s) beyond simply storing a lot of small chunks.

On Linux ZFS has has an encryption feature developed by datto.com.

They developed this feature for their own hosted encrypted backup service.

If you have you data encryped in ZFS like that locally, you can use zfs send to send them encrypted snapshots of your data while only ever having to transmit the diffs.

I am in the process of setting up something like this with my own backup server right now. I'm not 100 % confident yet that I'll get it working though.

Have you looked into tarsnap.com?

I use rclone for that purpose.

https://rclone.org/crypt/

There's tarsnap (tarsnap.com). It always pops up here on HN when talking about really secure encrypted backups. Not sure it solves your use case, but I figured I'd mention it since nobody else did.

I use restic with backblaze. It works great and super cheap. Kinda slow, but you can always order one of their portable drives and ship it back to them for the initial upload.

60 USD for unrestricted per year? Can I store 10 TB there?

You can. I haven't checked their products in a long time. Look out for:

[1] Old file versions and deleted file retention - default was 30 days I think. You pay extra to make it a 1 year, and more to make it forever forever.

[2] Keep connecting the external drives or lose that data. Because the last time I checked if you don't connect your drive (or maybe the computer/laptop too, not sure) regularly the files are marked as "deleted" and [1] will kick in even though you'll keep paying (unless you are paying extra).

[3] They didn't have restore option from the app - either use their website (I am not sure how the partial/interrupted restores were handled from a browser) or they will send a restore drive to your home (it was free iirc).

If it works for you you can give the service a shot. Their Mac app, at least, is really really good (way better than competition including the relic called Time Machine).

Why do you need to encrypt YouTube videos?

I think it is just good practice to have all your data encrypted.

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