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Re:We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to desc... by ar0 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @05:01PM (#13853091)
Will second that. I've been using the OS X build of Duplicati for a while now to backup via SCP and it works flawlessly. And, yes, I did test restoring some files from time to time with it. Note that the new "Duplicati 2.0" is no longer based on duplicity as far as I understand but a complete rewrite. It also uses a completely different backup architecture which should avoid / lessen the need for regular "full backups".

I backup to a 1 TB storage VPS from time4vps.eu, which at 72 EUR for two years is also much cheaper than Crashplan which I used before (and which seemed to be far more resource hungry on my Mac).

Only downside of Duplicati in my opinion is that it performs daily backups not "real-time" backups as some others do.

On the other hand, the post above asks for a "full service solution", in that case I would probably still recommend CrashPlan - it also supports local encryption with your own encryption keys and has been very reliable for me as well.

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Re:We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to desc... by Strom on Sunday March 12, 2017 @07:12PM (#13853842)
Wow, time4vps.eu is even cheaper than hetzner for storage. Definitely going to be testing them out for my cloud storage needs.
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Re:We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to desc... by tmikaeld on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:06AM (#13856016)
They are not, check out Hubic - 10TB for 49€ year
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Re:We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to desc... by Strom on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:52PM (#13861057)
Hubic may be interesting for personal use but it's unsuitable for commercial use, which is my actual goal. I need something which I can buy in bulk and scales into PB range.

For example the hubic contract [1] states that bandwidth is limited to 10 Mbit/s upstream and downstream. Compare this to 400 Mbps dedicated port speed for each Storage server at time4vps.eu. Indeed, time4vps.eu offers 32 TB of bandwidth per month with the 4 TB storage plan, while hubic's 10 Mbit/s means that even if I transfer 24/7 for the whole month I'll only be able to transfer 3.3 TB of the 10 TB they offer.

For heavy personal use something like Amazon Drive [2] is probably a better choice, because it offers unlimited storage for $60/year. People on reddit are saying they have hundreds of TBs stored with no complaints.

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[1] https://hubic.com/en/contracts/Contrat_hubiC_2014.pdf

[2] https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/

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