How to Properly Use Cloud Storage | Rsync Encrypt Tutorial 

Great point! Thanks for catching this Bill

Also the guide that was shown said allowed values for hours are 0-23 making 3 4am not 3am.

@@strandloper - No, not quite.... Zero hour, midnight or 2400 hours is the beginning of the day. Each hour indicated after that is the number of whole hours since midnight. So, 3 AM means that there have been three whole hours since the zero hour. 4 AM would indicate that there had been four whole hours since the zero hour.

@@HamBands Ah right. Makes sense. I haven't used crontab since before 2005 so my memory is a little foggy.

Agreed, thanks for the comment.

Rclone_vfs mount your gdrive for unlimited Plex storage.

This would be very interesting!

"I'd be interested to know if this works with encryption." Did you test it?

Stealing this phrase!

I did not know this, thanks for the comment!

That's good, I'm looking to move to Linux at home but will still be Windows at work.

@@strandloper In the exact same boat. Work only "provides" Windows and some programs needed for work only run on Windows anyway. This allows me to make use of "cloud" storage to transfer files and backups between both work and home - not needing an external to be carried about. Though mostly used so I can get to them no matter where I am, even if travelling abroad. I've been steadily moving towards Linux for the past 2 decades now, thus far the only Windows left at home is one VM on a desktop and a dual boot on my laptop. All the rest is some form of Debian or another (Mint, Kubuntu, Pop_OS, straight Debian as server, and OMV as NAS). For my "real" file transfers, the absolute simplest way I use is Syncthing instead. Effectively a peer-to-peer cloud without intermediate servers - directly transferring the files from one machine to any I choose and keeping all synchronized with one another. I used to use Fedora for everything, but around 10 years ago I ran into an issue with a program I needed for work (BricsCAD) at the time the program was only available as 32bit, but my machine was further ahead than a 32bit OS would allow. Fedora's 32bit on a 64bit OS didn't play well with that program. Yet I found Ubuntu worked perfectly without a hitch. Since then I've gone with some form of Debian or other, usually an Ubuntu derivative - just because they tend to need the least amount of effort to get setup. This is most probably no longer an issue, especially as that program is now available as 64bit as well. But I'm more "familiar" with Debian these days, not really any reason to change anymore. For gaming, Pop is my goto - since again I don't like to faf about too much. The simpler, easier, most expedient is my first choice. Only if I have some specific reason would I opt for some other idea like Arch. Thus far Pop does fine for my gaming needs. The only games I have which aren't exactly "awesome" are Bethesda stuff - most "run" in Proton / through Lutris. But things like F4SE and SKSE means mods don't work well or at all under Linux - similar issue to those anti-cheat stuff. Unfortunately Bethesda games tend to require mods to fix the bugs, crashes and bad design in their games, thus why I still have one dual boot for Windows.

@@benriful I'll take a look at Syncthing though I do like using cloud storage because it provides backup and some rollback for the occasional DOH! moment along with syncing. BTW are you also South African? I've never heard the phrase "don't like to faf about" used by non-Saffers.

@@strandloper Yep, SA since I was born. Note, Syncthing does have a setting to keep several versions of a file. You can state how many of them, per shared folder, per machine sharing it. Various options on how the versioning occurs, e.g. just placing it in a "trash can" (similar to how recycle bin works), simple versioning (moving the files at delete or overwrite to a date stamped folder, or staggered as a hybrid between date stamps and age, or using an external program for versioning. I think "default" is the date stamp folder with 5 versions per file. And since each computer you set to the shared folder will have a copy of everything in that folder, it means even if a complete computer dies on you, you still have it on another (or even more than one).

Cryptomator was the only free solution I found, primarily as a linux user but wanting cross-platform compatibility with Win,Mac,iOS and android. The mobile apps are buggy but the desktop apps are solid.

Performance is worse than EXT4 from my understanding, but I love ZFS for it's backups and reliability.

@@ChrisTitusTech thank you for your response. I read that apple is using a new file system optimized for SSDs what do you know about ext4 is it already well optimzed for SSDs or can we expect ext5 or something like that. (I thought ZFS could be that new ssd file system but its for another purpose altogether)

Aparently RSYNC may not be able to keep in memory if a folder is deleted. So its difficult to make it a Dropbox replacement. Can we perhaps use github.com/deajan/osync Osync?

I use pcloud for backup. I guess you can use storage for whatever you like.

Certainly QUBES is an great way to compartmentalize things and be very secure.

A person who doesn't know how to remove windows 10 is trying to install/use Qubes OS? Qubes is not for beginners. You might have a difficult time using it

But what about retrieval? Maybe attach a really long string? :)

@@ChrisTitusTech Exactly c:

@@epsi I use Dvorak... Is just about learning and training your muscular memory.

@@epsi Maybe a boneless pinky?

@@arrdubu interesting, and thanks for the info :)

@Arr DubU said it best, it is far more common for the access point to be at the user level than breaking into encrypted storage. A good case of this is when a terrorist in the US encrypted his iPhone. A 3rd party finally cracked it using an exploit in the Apple iPhone software, but something like this, there is 0 access or exploits unless you have direct access to BOTH keys. Short of having a quantum computer, there is NO way for them to get access.

@@ChrisTitusTech Nice, cheers Chris :)