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Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by xiphias2 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @05:20PM (#30581849)
Is there a Google Drive clone with encrypted backups?

I love the usability of Google Drive (being able to access / make files offline whenever I want), but the Mac update started to force me to upload all my files, which I don't want to do, as the files are not encrypted.

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by jeroenhd on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:32PM (#30584239)
You can host Seafile yourself, which has end-to-end encrypted libraries[1] and version control. There are also hosted versions listed in their partners page [2] if you'd rather not manage that yourself. Apps are available for most platforms, I believe.

I don't know how good macOS support for FUSE style filesystems is these days, but you could work around the encryption problem by mounting something like an EncFS file system over your cloud drive (Homebrew seems to have it?). It'll make the files virtually inaccessible to other tools (like the GDrive web UI) but it'll protect your files and should keep away most unnecessary sync operations. I don't know if and if or how it conflicts with the GDrive application, though.

[1]: https://help.seafile.com/security_and_encryption/use_encrypt...

[2]: https://www.seafile.com/en/partner/

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by brandon272 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @08:08PM (#30582975)
The only Google Drive/Dropbox like service that I am aware of that does end-to-end encryption is:

https://www.sync.com/

The other solutions would be self-hosted (i.e. mounting an encrypted cloud drive using rclone crypt or using cryptomator in combination with something like Cyber Duck or Mountain Duck)

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by xiphias2 on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:22AM (#30585067)
It looks cool and easy to use, I think this is the only complete solution from the replies, but the other comments were interesting as well.
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:33PM (#30582359)
Google Drive with rclone and the crypt layer (https://rclone.org/crypt/)?
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by xiphias2 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:41PM (#30582410)
It looks like a command line application, I'm looking for something with a great OS X, iOS, Android and web GUI (and happy to pay for it).

Dropbox looks similar to Google Drive with the same problem (No E2E encryption)

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by vanc_cefepime on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:14PM (#30583472)
Maybe https://www.arqbackup.com/ works for you? Has E2EE. As far as I know, it’s not open source, but the format is open. I use them to back up files from my Mac to Dropbox.

I also use Cryptomator but that’s just for regular files that I pull from different iOS device to Dropbox.

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by tedmiston on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:44PM (#30595224)
You can use Cryptomator with the various cloud storage backends.

https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by allisdust on Monday March 07, 2022 @06:22AM (#30586473)
Try Duplicati. Cross platform, free and supports several backends (google drive, s3 and s3 compatible providers etc). Supports encryption so you have data security.
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by XorNot on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:44PM (#30582433)
It won't give you cloud just at the moment, but syncthing supports "untrusted peers" which keep all your files encrypted when they're on that remote.
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by Saris on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:33PM (#30583586)
Nextclouds sync client has 'virtual files' where it only downloads stuff when you need it, or when you mark a file/folder as available offline.
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by alex_lod on Monday March 07, 2022 @10:19AM (#30588775)
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by jbc1 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:36PM (#30582375)
You could try using cryptomator to encrypt and then keep using drive or any other cloud service.
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by vorticalbox on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:39PM (#30584279)