[joyjoyjoy]

I found it extraordinary difficult to build your own encrypted cloud.

Options:

1. Truecrypt container. CON: Upload takes to long

2. ecryptfs CON Always had problems getting it to work. AFAIK it is not under current development anymore.

3. Run a FS in a mounted contaner (Filesystem in a FILE). Slow. Not very stable. Under no circumstance use ext4 or something like it, if you really want to try this, use ZFS to avoid data corruption

4. CryptFS. Great Idea but slow as f.. https://www.cryfs.org/comparison/

In the end I did not the cloud as a second backup for a large system (10TB) since I found no safe, fast and reliable way.

[rsync]

"I found it extraordinary difficult to build your own encrypted cloud."

I am happy to report that this has been (recently) solved:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

"(the) holy grail of backups"

[unethical_ban]

That is why I like ZFS: Its send/recv function can do block level syncing, so while the first upload will take a while, subsequent syncs will be much smaller.

Of course, unless you stand up your own VM with a ZFS partition, there are few cloud options for ZFS.

[rsync]

"... there are few cloud options for ZFS."

There is exactly one. You can ZFS send/recv to and from an rsync.net account that is enabled to do that:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/rsync...

https://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html

OR you can get a plain old rsync.net account and do a "dumb" sync to it and just configure ZFS snapshots on any schedule you like.

Ask about the "HN Discount".

[pella]

> 4. CryptFS. Great Idea but slow as

"CryFS solves all of these issues, but because of the increased security it is a bit slower. It is also a very new project and currently only available for Linux and Mac, but has experimental Windows support in the newest version. So if you don't need Windows support today, you can give it a try." https://www.cryfs.org/comparison/

[joyjoyjoy]

I tried. I have a 100MBit line. With no encryption I have a very good speed. To get things working I came down to 1% or somethings and very sluggish.

I also remember that my internet provider blocks many ports and I had to use my VPN to get required ports to working. This again scaled things down a little. I found CryFS not usable on Linux

[ValentineC]

Did you consider rclone [1]?

[1] https://rclone.org/crypt/

[hedora]

I bought a synology, and used their solution.

Haven’t tried a full restore, but I occasionally browse old backups and download something as a spot check.

I would much prefer a turn key open source solution that’s commercially developed/supported by one firm (but not tied to that company’s hosting).

Maybe someone will release something under the BSL, and build a healthy company out of it.