Re:Ice Box Pro: The best of Dropbox and Amazon Glacier combined
by StavrosK on Friday October 05, 2012 @09:48PM
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Is it encrypted on the client side? That's pretty much my only requirement now, since I have separated my two use cases (backups and syncing). I use encfs on Dropbox for encrypted syncing, and it works great, but I need backups encrypted on the client, and I haven't found anything great and cheap yet.
Re:Ice Box Pro: The best of Dropbox and Amazon Glacier combined
by rhizome on Friday October 05, 2012 @11:35PM
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What do you mean by "backups encrypted on the client?"
Re:Ice Box Pro: The best of Dropbox and Amazon Glacier combined
by dkokelley on Saturday October 06, 2012 @02:02AM
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I would guess he means that the data is encrypted before ever being sent to backblaze. The answer is yes according to http://www.backblaze.com/backup-encryption.html
Rather, it's an optional yes.
Re:Ice Box Pro: The best of Dropbox and Amazon Glacier combined
by StavrosK on Saturday October 06, 2012 @06:40AM
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Yep, that's what I meant, thanks.
EDIT: Actually, it looks like they can decrypt your data to restore it on their end, so it's a no.
Re:Ice Box Pro: The best of Dropbox and Amazon Glacier combined
by gnyman on Saturday October 06, 2012 @03:06PM
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Actually it is a yes, they cannot decrypt your data as they do not keep your password around. You have to enter it every time you want to restore a file, and it is not saved on their side only used to get the files then thrown away again.
Of course, if you have so sensitive stuff that you cannot accept it ever being on another server in clear text then it still a no on that question.
Re:Ice Box Pro: The best of Dropbox and Amazon Glacier combined
by matthew-wegner on Saturday October 06, 2012 @01:35PM
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I believe Tarsnap is your only viable option, if you want that enforce that degree of paranoia: http://www.tarsnap.com/
I let it handle other drives, too, although I exclude my media/music/download/etc drive for simplicity.