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Whats the best way to archive data long term while on a budget ?
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this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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I appreciate your honest answer. I want to completely own my data, so I would not go the Cloud route. After all the Cloud is basically someone else's computer.
The data remains yours if you encrypt it. Someone else's computer saves you all the time and effort of maintaining and monitoring hardware.
You want to use the actual services meant for this. S3 or glacier or something, not just consumer cloud storage like Google drive or Dropbox.
That's quite fair, personal preference is an important factor.
But if it's encrypted does it matter?
Ask all those that had shit on Megaupload in 2012.
Encrypted or not. Still lost.
Yeah. It should not be your only backup, but it can be one of them.
Lol imagine ever having considered megaupload as your backup solution.
there are many ways to encrypt locally and store the encrypted data remotely; either a container (like veracrypt), or individual files with a file-based encryption schemes (such as cryptomator) or one of numerous backup or sync utilities with built-in encryption.