Any cloud storage users?

[prepressdork]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone use cloud storage to store job archives long term? If so, which cloud storage service are you using? Experiences good or bad?

Thank you and best regards,
pd

 

[smalloffsetpressexperts]

Acronis

 

[wonderings]

I don't use it to store stuff, I find network stuff slow as it is. I use Backblaze to backup everything. No limit on storage size and for how I use it around $100 a year for unlimited storage. Works in the background so no slow downs.

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

Highly recommend you guys invest in off-site offline backups, and on-site storage. Cloud stuff that you don't manage yourself is going to be a liability (it likely already is). I will not store my customers' information on someone else's servers.

 

[prepressdork]

I was considering Internxt. They seem to claim zero-knowledge with post-quantum encryption.

 

[Stickman42]

off-site offline backups, and on-site storage

Could you please elaborate on this? I'm envisioning making backups at the office onto media that I carry home.

 

[TJPrinter]

Could you please elaborate on this? I'm envisioning making backups at the office onto media that I carry home.

This is exactly what I do. Storage is cheap and I always have multiple copies at my disposal if needed.

 

[ChrisZ]

Does anyone use cloud storage to store job archives long term? If so, which cloud storage service are you using? Experiences good or bad?

My own cloud. Only positive experience.
Chris

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

Could you please elaborate on this? I'm envisioning making backups at the office onto media that I carry home.

Yeah. Get something like

DiskStation® DS425+ | Synology Inc.

A compact storage hub with 100% data ownership

www.synology.com

And then have like 2-3 drives you rotate with complete images of your files. As long as you have under 25 employees, this file system, or something close, should be sufficient.

You should NOT be putting the data of your customers on ANYONE ELSE'S SERVER. Maybe 10+ years ago. Nowadays, you WILL get absolutely burned, especially as the Silicon Valley psychopaths get more and more data hungry, they will ruthlessly exploit technological hurdles, or acquire companies like Acronis outright. This is happening in other industries:

This is also part of my thesis on why people will redevelop apps like Figma. And why Adobe and Canva will be usurped by carbon copies made for the sole purpose of the data within the app being completely sovereign.

 

[Magnus]

We’ve built our archive solution on Google Cloud Blob Storage, with a custom frontend and an SQL-based indexing system that registers jobs during upload.

Our solution has been in production for around eight years and has proven to be very reliable, secure, and straightforward to maintain.

Our current cost for storage and data transfer is approximately $20 per terabyte per month.

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

secure

It's not.

 

[Robohopar]

Nobody uses Dropbox?

 

[Magnus]

It's not.

Well, you could always put on a tin foil hat and go completely off grid.

 

[TJPrinter]

Well, you could always put on a tin foil hat and go completely off grid.

It won't be long before Anthropic's Claude Mythos will be able to penetrate even a tin foil hat while you're off grid. It's abilities are very concerning for anything connected to the internet. An offline backup solution for jobs is not really an option, it's a necessity.

From Anthropic's own team . . .
"During our testing, we found that Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so. The vulnerabilities it finds are often subtle or difficult to detect. Many of them are ten or twenty years old, with the oldest we have found so far being a now-patched 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD—an operating system known primarily for its security."

 

[Stickman42]

If you are storing on-site and backing up offline, how do you address file transfers to/from clients?

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

Well, you could always put on a tin foil hat and go completely off grid.

Snarky comment to a real threat.

 

[namelessentity]

Snarky comment to a real threat.

Seems a little tin foil-y to be so concerned about cloud security when the majority of your files are likely coming in through extremely insecure channels. It's all just security theater at the end of the day, nothing is actually secure.

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

Seems a little tin foil-y to be so concerned about cloud security when the majority of your files are likely coming in through extremely insecure channels. It's all just security theater at the end of the day, nothing is actually secure.

Yes, that is certainly true. If someone is determined to get you, they just might. Just having a few hard copy backups is likely enough.

 

[Robohopar]

I use dropbox. They have the 30day delete feature which is nice. I have it loaded offline to each computer so whoever saves a file, it uploads and updates everyone elses computer. Only drawback is storage space on the drives...but you can buy a cheaper larger non ssd drive for just dropbox.

 

[martinben]

I've been relying on Google Drive for years and so far not disappointed.