Hi,
Very light question hence the lounge. What online storage are you using and why? The why can be anything from pricing to moral agreement to trying to help a smaller company.
I am pondering a public facing file server at my location but these days the cost is nearly equal to online.
Jeremy
Very light question hence the lounge. What online storage are you using and why? The why can be anything from pricing to moral agreement to trying to help a smaller company.
I am pondering a public facing file server at my location but these days the cost is nearly equal to online.
Jeremy
In 2006 I installed a new version of Windows on my pc.
To my horror the installation formatted both main drive and back up drive !
I did have some data on DVD's but I still lost a lot of valuable data.
I now keep copies of data on backup drive and numerous flash drives.
I keep one flash drive in the car in case of fire.
I also use google drive.
To my horror the installation formatted both main drive and back up drive !
I did have some data on DVD's but I still lost a lot of valuable data.
I now keep copies of data on backup drive and numerous flash drives.
I keep one flash drive in the car in case of fire.
I also use google drive.
As you probably know, having a public facing machine on a residential account can be tricky. Everything from some ISP's don't allow open ports to IP addresses are not guaranteed to be stable. In my case, my ISP has kept my V4 address the same for years and does allow ports. If both are allowed, I'd go local if you understand security well.
The security is no problem I would replace the factory modem / router with my own hardened gear. My thoughts are about economics and availability. If I store my data on hardware in a residential landscape I can not by definition get the same availability due to the many single points of failure. Dynamic IP, electric, hardware failures. I mean I could run mirrored raids on separate hardware in the home to negate hardware failure. I could have an alert sent to me via text when my public facing IP changes. But there is nothing to be done about electric except robust battery backup. So now I have 2 servers (device acting as a server for the 2 nas boxes) or some variation of that setup. 10 hd or ssd devices to get mirrored raid 5 plus extra parity drive in each storage node.
So hence my question about online storage services.
TO the users that are worried about security. I suggest that if the data is that important or personal you, create a virtual hard drive, encrypt the drive and then send the file that is the virtual hard drive to online storage for safe keeping.
There is also the issue of collaboration. Again I could set up a collaborative service at my home but then all work goes through my connection which is a single point of failure. Also at this point my tiny home ids noisy with hardware. Heck its a little noisy now with my routers , switches, dvrs, HVAC and the like.
Jeremy
So hence my question about online storage services.
TO the users that are worried about security. I suggest that if the data is that important or personal you, create a virtual hard drive, encrypt the drive and then send the file that is the virtual hard drive to online storage for safe keeping.
There is also the issue of collaboration. Again I could set up a collaborative service at my home but then all work goes through my connection which is a single point of failure. Also at this point my tiny home ids noisy with hardware. Heck its a little noisy now with my routers , switches, dvrs, HVAC and the like.
Jeremy
I use Google drive for sharing my high school reunion (etc.) photos, but I would not put anything confidential online. I remove MS one drive from my personal computers because it is both a performance hit and a security threat. I keep 3+ backup of important files. Storage is cheap with zero subscription fees.
I use Dropbox for program source files, schematics and pcb layout files. This makes it convenient to move between computers, and they're small enough I get free storage. For large collections (music CD extractions to wav) I back up to local USB hard disk.
Windows 10 is bugging me ot use Onedrive, and that's enough for me to not want it. Is there an easy way to remove all the Windows things pushing Microsoft products?
Windows 10 is bugging me ot use Onedrive, and that's enough for me to not want it. Is there an easy way to remove all the Windows things pushing Microsoft products?
I'll throw one more idea out there, I don't use it for storage, just server duties, but have been using linode for a cloud server for several years now. I have a single instance and it has been down for I think 2 times for around 10 or 15 minutes for upgrades in all that time. It weathered the big freeze in TX no problems and the machine resides in linode's Dallas facility. I have very little storage on the node, so no idea what pricing looks like if I wanted to add storage, but it is a full linux box sitting on a nice pipe that I have full autonomy over and is quite inexpensive configured as I have it. Linode was acquired recently by akaima so not sure what that is going to do to pricing/reliability over the longer term.
There's lots of decent powershell scripts out there to get win under control! I use a modified version of this one... https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
I like secure shell and if I still had the need for mass storage offsite I would use something like this but At this point in my adventures I can not see needing more than 512G of site for anything in the field.
In fact that is a massive amount of data for my use case. As it stands all my devices mirror the data every-time they get an internet connection. All I have to do is turn whatever device on that I may be needing in the field and it syncs its local copy of the data. This is great for me , myself, and I but its the collaboration and sharing aspects that it is not so good for. I can't set up everyone who might need at the data to use ssh.
For example If I am working on some drawings with my machinist and he needs to easily get access to the drawings on his own time he has to be able to get to them. Then the drawings have to be approved by a person in Ireland, One in Cali and One here in KY.
I also have AV automation scripts that need to be accessed by more than myself in case of hardware failure when I am not in the area.
AS for security if my information is on the cloud so what if it is breached. This data is of a type that is not useful to anyone outside my loop of associates. For example some one gets to a drawing and does what with it? I f they even know what it is for then they would have to find a top tear machinist to make it and then what. They can not sell it to anyone in the know because they are in the know. Speaking of the AV automation scripts they can only learn how to create the scripts the hard way as the education for creating the scripts is widely available.
@petertub
This is why I put this question out there. It gets me thinking.
Not for this data but just for geek fun, what do you think about a dual homed (two nic's) freenas box (yes i'm old and freenas is easier to spell.) I can put 1 NIC in the DMZ and 1 in the secure. I can then use a combination of fle level security, Use a different Class C (non rout-able) IP assignment for the NIC's, and port forward to the DMZ. I might have to Run a VM to accept a VPN connection (I don't think hardware VPNs are as configurable.) What might really be a blast would be to set up ssh xwindow sessions some how. I believe that I can set up security at the filesystem level based on the source of the request. Something like MAC filtering or group membership. I could go on and on but .
Jeremy
If you are going to use the power shell scripts make sure you read up on how to update power shell first. If not the power shell window will bleed all over you and you will think that you have made a mistake.
Also there is a blanket command out there to remove all of windows 10's appx software but you do not what to run it in the beginning. Also do some research on the whatif switch to power shell commands.
Jeremy
There is no gain in using several NIC's. It's a false feeling of security.
Use the firewall to filter connections and beeing the VPN endpoint ( forwarding to the NAS)
Keep the NAS simple is a goal in itself, firewalls/NAT boxes should also be as simple as possible.
@petertub
I may have mis-spoke / written. I would start with a computer bare metal. The I create 2 VMs on top of the VM manager platform. Each VM gets one NIC. The local NIC has my standard security to connect to the data pool. The other NIC is connected to Firewall / VPN. I then connect the 2 VM using various technologies, I would probably use a private virtual switch that the hypervisor can't access. (it can only control it not use it.) Now remember this is where the fun geeky stuff comes in. There is a physical link through a switch that is connected to the Firewall and the DMZ NIC. I power this on and off using a remote controlled wall socket.
Jeremy
I may have mis-spoke / written. I would start with a computer bare metal. The I create 2 VMs on top of the VM manager platform. Each VM gets one NIC. The local NIC has my standard security to connect to the data pool. The other NIC is connected to Firewall / VPN. I then connect the 2 VM using various technologies, I would probably use a private virtual switch that the hypervisor can't access. (it can only control it not use it.) Now remember this is where the fun geeky stuff comes in. There is a physical link through a switch that is connected to the Firewall and the DMZ NIC. I power this on and off using a remote controlled wall socket.
Jeremy
I use 10TB NAS units with RAID on two locations, for back-upping to both locations. The pc’s hard disks are back-upped to a local NAS every day. Data are back-upped to a remote NAS every day, using FTP. Each file is stored several times on different hard disks on different locations.
Regards, Gerrit
Regards, Gerrit