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Backblaze is $5 a month for unlimited storage. If your hard drive fails, you can order a hard drive with your data.

You better store encrypted if you're pirating movies/music.

It's rather easy to get TOS'ed even if you match filenames of common pirate name signatures.

Backblaze insists that your data is encrypted and that they can't see it. It's supposedly not like Box/Dropbox/Google Drive.

Do you have any examples where someone's Backblaze account was terminated for backing up pirated media?

I can comment on this - it's flawed. They encrypt locally and only send encrypted data to their servers, true, but they deduplicate that data between customers meaning they know file hashes or something similar and could remove pirated content if they so desired. Second, in order to get your data back their solution is to go ahead and type your "private" encryption passphrase into their site so their servers can then decrypt it and send you a zip or hard drive full of decrypted data.

I still suggest it for friends and family because it's cheap and damn sure that encryption is better than nothing, but if you have a lot of sensitive data I wouldn't recommend it. If you demand privacy, use Restic and Backblaze's B2 service, you're paying per GB then though.

> I still suggest it for friends and family because it's cheap and damn sure that encryption is better than nothing, but if you have a lot of sensitive data I wouldn't recommend it. If you demand privacy, use Restic and Backblaze's B2 service, you're paying per GB then though.

First, though, find out if your friends or family have an Office365 subscription. A lot of people get one because they want the Office apps, and don't make heavy use of the 1 TB of OneDrive storage that it includes. Restic vis rclone should be able to use that for backups.

Backblaze is cheap, but using something you have already paid for is even cheaper. :-)

How many of your friends are going to know how to use rclone?

You'd only need rclone if you wanted to use OneDrive with restic, because restic doesn't have direct OneDrive support.

Several other cloud backup programs do have OneDrive support built in, including Arq, duplicity, duplicati, duplicacy, and GoodSync. There are probably others.

Luckily passive commercial scanners don't require much; tossing it into an encrypted zip with everything set to fastest still runs over everything passive that's not nationstate

It makes more sense to encrypt the entire data store and just sync the entire data store. This is proof against anyone who isn't willing to hack your computer or break into your house while its open.

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