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Cloud Storage and Backups

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[Apologies for this article being off-topic due to not being about the
distant past. Is there a better USEnet space for this type of talk?]

ZDNET had an article today about "The best cloud storage services:
Expert tested". It seems that all of the services described are either
strictly for backup, or they implement "shared folders". While shared
folders are good for many use cases, and also provide backup for some
designated folders in your file system, I was a bit disappointed that
the 2-5 TB space offered by iDrive, OneDrive or iCloud seemingly cannot
be configured as a "remote NAS", that can be mounted as a drive to
Linux, Windows or Mac. Instead, they seem to communicate via proprietary
protocols with a provider-supplied sync application that runs on the
client.

I think my ideal cloud drive would have a client-end module that
presents to the OS as a block device (disk drive), wrapped in a container
file on the cloud end. You could then format the file system of your
choice, and the blocks would be encrypted/decrypted as they are shipped
to the cloud service, and the server would never have access to the
keys.

If nobody has built this yet, why is that?

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Cloud Storage and Backups Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2025-04-29 19:20 +0000
  Re: Cloud Storage and Backups John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-04-29 19:59 +0000
  Re: Cloud Storage and Backups Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-04-30 08:11 +0100
  Re: Cloud Storage and Backups Magnus <magnus@kalasarn.se> - 2026-06-23 08:42 +0000

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