What is Reddit's opinion of Spideroak One Backup ?

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I don't know Bvckup 2, but do you want cloud backup or local backup?

I use SpiderOakONE for cloud backups (cross platform), and it works well. It sits in the background and maintains either regular or constant backups (depending on your settings), including incremental backups. Zero-knowledge encryption.

For local backups, I use rdiff-backup, which includes incremental backups, to an encrypted backup disk. But, rdiff-backup doesn't run constantly.

I hope that this is of some help.

I think I am actually going to look at switching to SpiderOak. They offer unlimited clients/computers but put a cap on the storage, I fit within their storage limits for the myriad of computers I was previously backing up with Crashplan so it will work for me, either way I figured I would share it

https://spideroak.com/one/

I've been using SpiderOakONE for years. It keeps incremental backups, and it keeps data forever unless you explicitly delete old stuff (I regularly delete stuff older than 6 months).

It uses zero-knowledge encryption, so even their staff can't access your data.

It's cross-platform: Mac, Linux, Windows.

Be sure to continue using a second backup, though, because a single point of failure is dangerous.

For online (off-site) backups, I've used SpiderOakONE for years. It gives you incremental backups and, unless you explicitly delete old stuff, it holds data forever. It uses zero-knowledge encryption, so even their staff cannot access your data.

For offline (on-site) backups, I use rdiff-backup. As with SpiderOakONE, rdiff-backup creates differential backups, and likewise it keeps data forever unless you explicitly delete old stuff. I use a LUKS-encrypted external USB drive, so the data is secure.

sudo apt install rdiff-backup

Every week, I run a script to delete stuff older than 6 months from both SpiderOakONE and my rdiff-backup.

As other posters have said, don't bother backing up your entire system. Back up only your data. Be sure to test your backups regularly!

Cloud storage is a different thing than file backup. Cloud storage optimizes for sharing with other people, collaboration in albums, etc., while backup software is simply about making it as simple as possible to restore your computer in case of catastrophe.

Google Photos is IMO the best option for photo cloud storage. It's easy to use, integrates nicely with phones, has great collaboration features, turns your Nest Hubs into auto-updating digital picture frames.

There are plenty of reviews of backup services on the web. I personally use SpiderOak One because I care about multi-platform support, end-to-end encryption, and the retention of deleted files (I don't trust that I will notice when I've accidentally deleted something). But any of the popular options will be a great choice.

I use https://spideroak.com/one/ for backups, which is supported on Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and I think a Nokia phone OS. It's been around for over a decade and does client-side encryption, which I care about.

I don't actually back up files from my phone though. Images get transferred off automatically by Lightroom Mobile, they get downloaded to my computer automatically by Lightroom Classic, and then the backup software takes it from there.

To note, it sounds like you're describing online photo storage, not a file backup. Backups aren't generally going to give you nice UIs for browsing through photos they have because they're designed for all sorts of files, and for storing things that are also on your computer; they are really good at one thing, which is storing all your files completely how they reside on disk and then giving those exact same files back to you when you accidentally delete them, have disk failure, get your hardware stolen, etc. If you're looking for a way to just browse through all your photos, Lightroom does this through the aforementioned syncing, or you can upload everything to Google Photos. Neither of these is a backup however and so you should have one of those as well.

>Every company gets breached it is not a matter of if but when.

Agreed, but Signal uses client-side encryption before uploading data, so you don't have to worry about that. This is the correct way to implement cloud backups, and it's been implemented in normal cloud too, e.g. https://spideroak.com/one/

It sounds like what you want is full, bootable clones of your Mac's drives. In that case, pretty much the only solution out there is Carbon Copy Cloner. That can only back up to local disks or to another Mac on your network though, and I think it can only make bootable clones to locally attached disks. I suppose it might be possible to jerry-rig something with a VPN and USB-over-IP solutions like Flexihub ... but that sounds like a recipe for trouble.

Really, then, I think you probably need a multi-layered solution:

1. Carbon Copy Cloner to local hard drives which you have
2. Files backup to the cloud somewhere.

Since you have a (reasonable) concern about your privacy, for number 2 you might want to look at "zero knowledge" cloud backup solutions, like Tresorit or Spideroak One. They work by encrypting everything client side, before it gets uploaded to their servers, and they don't know the decryption keys, so they can't look at your data even if they wanted to.

As /u/gimtayida mentioned, Tresorit is likely your best bet. I have been using them for years and very happy with them.

Just for informational reasons, and so you can make your own educated decision here, I also suggest you look into SpiderOakOne. I started using it years ago at the same time as Tresorit. I use both, but tend to use Tresorit more as "cloud storage" and SpiderOakOne as a backup for important files.

In addition to other forms of backup, a good backup program is SpiderOak One: https://spideroak.com/one/

It’s end-to-end encrypted, meaning nobody but you can access your data. Unlike Dropbox, where their programmers, hackers, etc. can theoretically read your files.

I must point out that my notes are version controlled with a free private repo on Gitlab. They're also on Dropbox, Mega and Spider Oak One. Call me crazy, but I'm never gonna miss my data!

SpiderOak is not using blockchain for their storage service (https://spideroak.com/one/). How do you come up with this? Maybe one of their other services do, but definitely not their storage service. Furthermore, even if they did, the technology they use to ensure zero knowledge is irrelevant, unless you’re going to move this goal post again again and suggest we’re strictly discussing the academic definition of zero knowledge. We’re not debating the merits of various technologies that help achieve zero knowledge; if a company is unable to read what their service stores, even if compelled by law, that’s zero knowledge in my mind and most others.

Again, I haven’t searched myself, but I guess TarSnap is Canadian. You’re right. Regardless, you’d be inundated with US services that provide zero knowledge if you looked.

Evernote has never cared about your privacy, security, or functionality of their software, just that your credit card renews every year. Looking forward to trying out Spider Oak One - https://spideroak.com/one/