What do you use for cloud storage and why?

I’ve been wanting to move away from Dropbox for a long while, but I haven’t been able to find a suitable replacement. Dropbox has always been super convenient and has just worked for me.

I’ve tried Tresoit but the low link sharing limits (2gb) and 10gb limit for files is somewhat of a deal breaker for me. I’ve been interested in Proton Drive for a while, but until their mac app is ready it’s unusable for me.

I’ve also tried self-hosting a nextcloud instance (multiple times) but I’ve always just had too many issues with it. It’s been inconsistent in actually backing up files from my mac, I’ve had so many file conflicts, etc. I have a truenas scale server, so if there are other self-hosted methods I should try let me know.

Currently, I’m looking at filen and sync.com, but I’ve heard both have their issues so I’m curious to hear everyones thoughts on them as well.

Thanks!

Noel,

Mega.

Free.

50 gb. Signed up years ago.

end-to-end encrypted, client side. they claim they don’t have my decryption key. But don’t ask me why/how tho, since i’m not Bruce Schneier.

Nice, various, and widespread 3rd-party clients especially for Android.

Good user base. No one share sugarsync, or box.com

Reslient service, i hope. I remember i once have Copy.com account, but they closed. RIP Zippyshare, etc

InfiniWheel,

Seconded. Still got my free 50GB Mega from years ago. I’m assuming they will reduce it someday but I shall use it at its fullest til that day comes.

Their clients are also source available, but I don’t think many outside people check them anyway.

tpWinthropeIII,

Filen.io

Works well so far, is end to end encrypted, open source, and the apps are nice and solid.

Tundra,

crypt.ee

hayhay,

I’ve never heard of crypt.ee till today, but wow is it amazing for all my document editing needs. Thank you!

bobbytables,

Nextcloud with Hetzner your-storageshare. ~5€/m for 1TB is hard to beat and it runs so well. I still use encryption and a few plugins like on a selfhosted instance.

JackSkellington,

How do you deal with the encryption? How did you set that up? Or you encrypt on your pc and then send to hetzner?

bobbytables,

I only use the encrypted storage built in natively in Nextcloud. https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/encryption_configuration.html but only for local storage.

The e2ee was not very good the last time I checked. I should check out any new developments though.

hayhay, (edited )

I’ve heard a lot of issues (from a few old reddit threads though) in regards to NC Encryption, specifically with data loss and file integrity. I don’t think I’m comfortable going that route, but if they’ve made improvements I might as well check it out

Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Hetzner EU only? If I’m in the U.S., wouldn’t that make file syncs rather slow?

bobbytables,

I think they opened or are planning to open a US data center. Other than that they are in Germany and Norway at the moment.

I’m in Germany, too, but I synced to it while being in the US, in Spain, and in Indonesia on vacation and I never had any problems with delays. And even if it was slow it was the hotel wifi 100% of the time. But using it full time from across the ocean ymmw.

hayhay,

Looks like they did open a US data center, but the storage shares are still Germany & Norway.

I might still give it a shot, it’s not a large commitment so might be good to try.

goodhunter,

This is a great option, I have used it too in the past. Since, I have switched to iCloud when they implemented e2e encryption. Seems no one else here goes that route, trust issues maybe.

I do miss versioning with iCloud.

I have proton drive too, waiting on that osx client.

bobbytables,

ICloud with e2e could be nice. But having a mix of Linux and Windows laptops in the household it is just not possible. There simply is no Linux client for it. And last time I checked the Windows client didn’t support e2e. So there goes that.

And to be completely honest I really do have trust issues with Apple (and Big Tech in general).

WhiteHotaru,

So you want to backup or do you want to file share/work together on documents?

For backup I use Spideroak for all our families computers. It did a solid job over the last four Linux laptops and MacBooks I used. I only backup the home directory and the external drive with my Photo Library.

For Cloud Storage I use OneDrive. I don’t have much to share, so this is normally enough.

hayhay,

I’d say like 65% backup, 35% share/collaboration. It’s why this simple decision has become unnecessarily complex for me haha. I want a balance of privacy, yet I want the ease of access and user-friendliness of Dropbox.

From this thread, I think ente is partly perfect for my needs. I’ve been trying out filen and it’s been quite good, but I might stick with Dropbox till the Proton mac app launches and see how it is.

Might end up just doing NC + storej, though. Many have said NC has improved significantly as of late so it might be worth a look at once more.

capital, (edited )

Primarily on site with NextCloud for getting to my important documents via mobile.

Backups are going to Wasabi via restic but if you want to do something a little more “live”, rclone mount with Wasabi also works well, even on Windows.

As always, I suggest encrypting before putting it anywhere but your own devices.

Evotech, (edited )

Google

With cryptomator

It’s super cheap, and with cryptomator you can easily locally encrypt anything you put on there. With great iOS and Android support aswell

smeg,

I’ll second Cryptomator, it’s relatively convenient and means I can use the free tiers of Google Drive, Dropbox, Onedrive, etc without them having a nose through all my stuff

Yinchie,

Filen.io for files and Ente.io for photos.

hayhay,

How do you like Filen so far? I tried it out with a few directories and it felt very snappy. Plus, the .fileignore feature is phenomenal and I wish more providers would do it!

I heard when filen was first launched there were some issues with their encryption and some file loss, do you happen to know if this has largely been fixed? Thanks!

M137,

Mega

I pay for it anyway since I was lucky enough to get a few accounts on a private forum where everything is shared via mega, it’s very active and a great community. Only a few times I haven’t found something I was looking for there, and that was quickly solved by posting a request. (The only way to join is to get personally invited. And no, I won’t use my invites for randoms, don’t ask).

Haven’t used torrents for close to a decade now, it’s nice to have basically anything easily findable with direct download from mega.

vox, (edited )
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google drive.
i pretty much sold my soul to google at this point
anyway they have my address, payment info, all of my photos since 2014, my preferences from YouTube, google maps data and since I’m using google location sharing and find my phone, they have access to my exact location at all times; and half of my payments go through google pay and I’m using android with my google account.

dmtalon,

Nextcloud docker on unRAID has worked well for me on…

Android, Windows and my MacBook(s)

I use it to Auto upload photos from my phone as well as cloud storage. Shared directories with my wife and son for easy sharing.

No real issues outside a couple painful upgrades in the past .

calmluck9349,
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Which docker do you use?

dmtalon,

lscr.io/linuxserver

Churbleyimyam,

Check out YUNOhost. If you’ve gone off Nextcloud and just want to sync files you could simply install Syncthing and be done with it.

chemicalwonka,
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I don’t use cloud storage anymore I migrated all my files to M-Disc

Lemmyfunbun,

What is M-Disc?

Extrasvhx9he, (edited )

Iirc theyre these expensive discs that are highly resistant to disc rot (or something along those lines) for at least 1000 years. Kinda gimmicky tbh since it still needs to be stored properly to achieve that claim and suffers from the same problems as any other optical disc (the equipment needed to read and write and still durability)

chemicalwonka,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I migrated all my cloud files to M-Discs because in the near future, even if I encrypt my files with PGP before sending them to the cloud, big tech will be able to break their encryption. I don’t trust any big tech.

Extrasvhx9he, (edited )

Curious why M-disc specifically? Isn’t that storage media kind of expensive for the amount of storage space you get? Plus unless every disc is getting buried in a capsule, you would still have to baby it like any other optical disc even though its more durable.

filister,

Take a look at www.storj.io, their prices are pretty low

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