Without getting too into the specifics, I shoot content for ‘creators’ as well as shoot my own content for/with my partner. I also maintain a substantial archive for my photography side-hustle, which is ever growing.

All the videos/photos are all stored on my 16tb home server. While I’m not too fussed with the storage sizes at the moment, I’m more concerned about protecting both the models/my partner (and myself) against any form of hack, or even burglary.

I’m paranoid that if someone physically steals my server, they will gain access to a bunch of sensitive information, and I’m paranoid that if someone gains access to some sort of cloud storage I am looking at purchasing.

I currently have Backblaze unlimited backup which is great, but it’s also quite a chore to go through to find content to download. To me, it’s more of a total backup solution. I was wondering if it’s worth maintaining the backblaze as a backup solution, while getting some sort of cloud storage (I’ve been looking at filen/pcloud) meaning me and my partner can access and quickly view the content we make, making organisation/posting far, far easier.

Does anyone encrypt locally? (Is that a thing? I’m fully new to this), so if someone physically had my server, they wouldn’t be able to get it. As well as have some sort of sync solution/cloud storage that allows me to access the storage folder in explorer (and on mobile devices), making life easy for me.

Cheers!

  • smarthome_fan@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I personally believe every scrap of data should be encrypted. Doesn’t matter if it’s NSFW or an archive of the weather report. Everyone should be encrypting their hard drives so they’re easier to securely erase when you need to decommission them. Aside from forgetting the password, there’s virtually no downside to you at all.

    Veracrypt, FileVault (or APFS encrypted storage) and BitLocker, are all perfectly solid encryption options. I’m not up on my Linux options.

    To back up to the cloud, use a tool that allows you to manage the encryption locally, like Rclone, Duplicacy or Arq Backup. Never upload anything unencrypted to the cloud and never keep any unencrypted hard drives around.

    This has been my strategy. Keep my encrypted data at home and upload it in encrypted form to the cloud.