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How to secure DIY offsite backup storage? Backups at home and at work

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tracerit

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I have 12GB of home videos that I'd like to keep a backup of. Currently it's all at my home desktop that I leave on 24/7. I thought about Crashplan but their service is so slow, so I canceled it.

I also have a computer I keep on 24/7 at my work (family business). I was thinking about putting extra hard drives over there and having my videos sync between the two. My only concern is that if my work (or home) gets broken into and they steal the computer, is there a way that I can password protect the drive? Both computers have an SSD as primary, and the storage drives are HDD.

From what I know, someone can just sttrip the computer, remove the storage drive, plug it into theirs and then go through my stuff right?
 
There's a saying in IT. Physical access is full access.

What made you determine Crashplan is slow? They've got a pretty sizable user base, even here on the forums.
 
I have 55Mbps upload rate and I just remember it being super slow. This was maybe three years ago? Things may have changed but I would prefer having quick access to a full backup if necessary.

I will take a look at Crashplan again and if there's a free trial, I'll check it out.
 
You're paying them for data security, not speed. That said, if all you're backing up is home videos, why does it matter?
 
tracerit said:
Because it does? I'm paying them, the service shouldn't "suck".
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You remember it was slow but not how slow? 55Mbps upstream seems... Odd, and high. Did you verify that with speedtest?

Crashplan compresses, setups, and encrypts the data on the client side before uploading. Can be a bottleneck.

12GB is almost nothing - it should back up fairly quickly (overnight). Try backing up 2.2TB with a 4Mbps upstream... Yeah.

Crashplan doesn't want to max out your upstream connection. If you do much stuff online, you don't want it to either.

Lastly, if you install Crashplan on both computers, you can back them up to each other for free, not using or subscribing to Cloud services.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
Try backing up 2.2TB
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I'm in the process of backing up with Crashplan, taking about 4 months for 10TB.

On a 150mbps upload connection, their servers are the bottle neck though, I rarely see over 1MB/s

It's funny, crashplan has FAQs on how to use crashplan with limited data connection, I'd love to know how to use it with more than 1MB/s.
 
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ownCloud + client-side encryption + Let's Encrypt SSL + DuckDNS = secure storage with no third-party control or monthly fees.

ownCloud in a VM if you don't have any Linux knowledge.

EDIT: You could do server-side encryption with ownCloud if you encrypt your VM/drive/partition
 
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For 12GB, I'd use a few thumb drives in a safety deposit box. If the data changes often you can just rotate out drives. There are tons of other cloud providers out there and for the amount of data you have it shouldn't take long to upload with a good connection. Some offer trials so you can see how it works.

You could use drive or file encryption on data that you want to keep safe locally but having access to the computer would mean they could most like get to the data but having just the drive they wouldn't be able to read the data.
 
Sorry op, but 12GB is really minuscule. Home videos shouldn't really require high security, in my mind, unless you're talking a certain type of home video you don't share with the kids... then I could see it being high security.

And if you're not creating new content regularly, I don't see how you need anything more than an external disk and maybe some sort of software that allows you to password protect the data. Then just take it to and from work and lock in a drawer/safe/cabinet/whatever. I know a guy who has two disks and he simply backs up his home stuff and rotates the disk to and from home.

You typically want to use an uplink to backup data because it is constantly getting updated and you need a current copy offsite. And online backup solution is feasible if you're talking 12GB of new data a day/week/month/etc.
 
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