Just FYI - Box.net is offering a free 50gb lifetime cloud drive if you sign up through your iPhone (not sure if its on Andriod or not).

I've been looking for a cloud drive to keep a back up of stuff for pictures/music/personal files. Even though Box.net and and Drop Box gives you a bunch of space, they limit the upload size of individual files to 25mb for free accounts, and 1gb for paid (on Drop Box at least). Problem is, I have about 5000 photos at 18gb I want to upload to have a backup. No way in hell though I'm uploading photos without encrypting the data first. I downloaded AxCrypt, zipped my "Picture" folder, set up Box.net as a network drive and tried to upload it. No luck.

If I try and encrypt the unzipped folder it encrypts EACH picture individually, taking roughly 5 seconds a picture. Obviously not a route to pursue having to decrypt 5000 photos in case of a back up.

Not really interesting in breaking it up into 18 seperate encrypted files...and I could care less about encrypting my music folder. But it'd still be nice to upload one folder rather than 7000 individual songs...

Any suggestions on how I can effectively use a cloud drive as a backup or know of another provider w/o a file limit?

10/22/2011 12:21:52 PM

Amazon cloud drive

10/22/2011 2:30:37 PM

^



and you'll pay a whole lot less, to boot

10/22/2011 6:43:33 PM

what happens if your local hard drive bursts into flames with the key to decrypt your pics? amazon s3 with at rest encryption

10/23/2011 10:24:11 AM

I don't know about you, but I'm not uploading a single 18GB file at 1.5Mbit without some kind of checksum.

10/23/2011 12:00:50 PM

checksum != encryption

Unix-like systems have a variety of ways to generate CRC32/MD5/SHA-1/etc., and for Windows and Mac there's HashTab: http://implbits.com/HashTab.aspx

10/23/2011 1:25:56 PM

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"what happens if your local hard drive bursts into flames with the key to decrypt your pics? amazon s3 with at rest encryption"

AxCrypt allows to you store the key in the data file. It's password protected rather than a 100 character key

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"amazon s3 with at rest encryption"

What is this? Tell me a little more ab it

10/23/2011 3:09:05 PM

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#protecting

10/23/2011 9:27:24 PM

^so basically, $0.14/gb per month? The bandwidth requirements shouldn't be an issue. Still don't really understand their encryption, but I'll have to read up on it.

Ever since I heard of someone who worked for a file storage site lift music and movie files out of someone's account - I'm weary of uploading anything I don't want publically available...

10/23/2011 11:38:46 PM

Don't use S3, it's for commercial use.

Use Amazon Cloud Drive. It's $1/gb/year with the first 20gb free. It's secure, it's pretty damn reliable, and you can extend it at any time.

10/24/2011 2:55:51 AM

^where are you seeing the first 20gb for free with amazon? looks like it's 5gb to me.

10/24/2011 3:50:30 AM

special offer for Microsoft employees IMO

10/24/2011 5:45:59 AM

^^ ah damn, my bad. That was apparently a promotion that ended (buy any MP3 album, get 20gb free). Sorry bout that

10/24/2011 5:49:54 AM

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"I'm weary of uploading anything I don't want publically available"

weary, huh?

Or do you mean wary?

10/24/2011 9:18:13 AM