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Re: Cloud Storage and Backups

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According to Lars Poulsen  <lars@beagle-ears.com>:
>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". ...

Yup, that's what they tested.  They're a consumer publication, they test
stuff consumers are likely to use.

>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.

There are cloud NAS providers (try "cloud NAS" in a search engine.) If you
connect via iSCSI I'd think you could do your own encrypted file system,
although SMB or NFS is likely to be easier to set up.

Here's a few:

https://wasabi.com/cloud-object-storage/cloud-nas
https://www.buurst.com/products/softnas/


Another that seems aimed at bigger customers:

https://solink.com/resources/nas-vs-cloud/

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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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