128GB BD-XL Sony discs and Linear Tape-Open cassettes (which can cost cost around $45 for 6 TB of data storage) are better than simply using external HDD drives as backup.
I've a slightly different definition for this pattern. (3) At least three copies of the data (i.e. primary plus at least two backups); (2) At least two different media types (e.g. magnetic, solid state, optical); (1) At least one copy off site. I like your notion of two online copies and one offline, where online means immediately accessible (not necessarily on the internet), and where offline is on media that is effectively write only and unpowered to guard from malware, for example.
@@JohnSmith-zl8rz The disc thing is a bit weird of a suggestion, but LTO's (data tapes) are pretty cheap. I just looked and you get get a 45TB tape for $100. Not sure how much data you have, but that single tape would laste me quite a while.
Regarding the Synology NAS, I'd like to add that Synology supports 'QuickConnect', which allows you to access your NAS from the Internet without having to poke holes in your firewall. Also, Synology supports cloud backup of your NAS with local side encryption and only you have the key (don't lose it!). Very private and secure as far as I'm aware. Thank you for everything you do Naomi. It's much appreciated!
I always use Syncthing, a FOSS application to synchronize files across various devices. In my case I have a one-way synchronization, pushing all photos from my local photos folder to my Server/NAS. It is pretty easy to set up, at least not harder than something like Synology Photos. It is not just available for Synology and works pretty reliably in the background, at least on non-iPhones. It could also be an option for people without a server who have a PC though (Windows, Mac Linux). Then it would always push the photos if both, the phone and the PC are running and connected to the same network . For most people, this should be the case if their PC is running. I think this might even be the best opinion. It even works securely encrypted over the internet without opening ports.
@hiamben I just noticed a minor loss of battery life. Perhaps 1-2% more per day than without. However, my phone has a rather big 5000mAh battery (4 years old now). On my old phone (S7) it would probably have drained the battery as you described.
Big fan of Syncthing. Sort of a fork/clone of BitTorrent/Resilio Sync. Every time I take a picture on my phone - bam - it's on my computer. It'll even wait if the computer is off. I also use it to sync a bunch of audio books from my PC back to the phone. The only downside I've had is that Android will occasionally kill the app to save memory. Not often, though.
@@Insightfill In newer Android versions, in addition to the option to allow an app to run in the background, there is also the option to stop the app activity when not in use. This is always on by default. I would try deactivating this.
Naomi, a good video as usual, but as a proton user i dont recommend it for photo backup just yet. you can not create folders or should i say albums, therefore if you are like me and have hundreds if not thousands of photos, it just becomes a total mess with no structure and trying to find a particular photo to view is frustrating and time consuming. eventually proton will sort this out, but they are slow to update there apps. So i would go with Mega which is end to end encrypted for now. Great channel Naomi and i appreciate your effort in trying to educate us all.
All of my pictures are stored on a hard drive on my computer, this drive is mirrored to another drive on the same computer. The pictures are copied once a week to an external drive. Other than the pictures I publish on my websites, none leave my computer. In addition, all of my pictures are taken with a camera an not a phone or tablet.
@@johnmilton7578 If you are not already, you should really look to keep a copy of external drive in another location, which is not in the same property as your computer and the first external drive. As if there was a major issue such as a fire/flood, you could lose them all
A huge problem with proton drive is web and javascript. When using web browsers, client-side code has to come from the server, so the server could still become a bad guy and send you malicious client-side code and then see all your data It's end to end encrypted only because the client-side code isn't malicious It would be noticed by people if this happened at large scale, but the server could target some IPs at the request of law enforcement and send this malicious code only to those IPs, and it would never be noticed
Not just web and javascript but any client which the service operator can update. The concept of zero trust is misleading marketing IMO. Zero trust is still good to have and increases security against some threats, but using any cloud service requires some trust.
Syncthing is free and open source and syncs things between devices. I just sync my photos folder to my computer which itself gets backed up to an external hard drive.
I was _very_ pleasantly surprised when the host said that _none_ of the products mentioned were sponsors. Live to hear it. I was half expecting Proton to be sponsored now that their shelling out money to UA-camrs for ad reads. Keep it up, you are all very principled.
Apple's problem is icloud, the only way to avoid is to use only the very first iPhone. With Android only use 1.0 or something earlier than ginger bread. OR use a de-google Android phone
Thank you for covering selfhosting, please include more of this! My personal setup is syncing my phone to Immich (self-hosted Google Photos replacement), and then backing this up to a second NAS on-site and also to Proton Drive. I use Wireguard to VPN into my home connection, so I can backup my photos using Immich from anywhere.
Burn your pics to a dual layer blu-ray 50gb disc. I doubt you'll ever need anything else. NEVER store personal photos on the 'cloud'. Previous comments are correct. The only private secure computer is one that is NOT connected to the internet. Period.
@@veritasaequitas8441 Good shout! There are special types of DVD/BD which claim more durability/longevity than normal (e.g. M-Disc) which may help reduce the frequency of rotation, though not sure how much more reliable they are. In any case I would probably need an annoying number of BDs to backup/rotate all my data (so might look to use multiple HDDs or even LTO tape).
I don't think proton is a good option for backup. There have many good option in market like pcloud. And I also think that giving all my details to one company is much more riskier than choosing different company for different usages pattern. The most recommend option in proton is Proton Unlimited plan where we get drive, mail, password manager and vpn and I don't like to give all my data to one company
Great one! Another great tool is "syncthing" You can synchronize all the folders you want, with how many endpoint you want (enabling multiple copies for security). And on top of that you can do all of this through Tor :P Would be great to present such an implementation!
Personally I prefer to go old school and back up to another piece (or two) of hardware at home. Might take more time but I feel safer doing this than having my private photos zipping around the internet, encrypted or not. It's shocking how many people have no idea that all their private photos are like an open book to Google (and others).
i'm trying to break free from monthly cloud backup subscription fees thanks for this. I wonder if iOS specific features like Live photos are actually preserved with proton backup or with using synology nas. I actually like those few seconds of video and audio--like a harry potter moving portrait to go along with the still photo--and it all should be backed up not just the stills. Really miss having microSD cards built in to phones. Would love to have a 1.5TB expansion card for my iphone.
I use MEGA which came with 20GB free storage, it has end-to-end encryption and I can automatically sync / upload photos from my phone to MEGA. Up to 16TB of storage is available for individual accounts.
I have a Synology NAS. The photo backup to NAS you covered was interesting, but doesn't allow for photo backup when out of the house. I'd hate to be on a killer vacation, lose my phone and have no backup of the photos.
Of course it can, you just haven't configured it correctly to do so. Setup a quick connect id in the Synology nas and use that in the photos app and it will be able to access the outside of your network..
if the cloud is to be used, put it in an encrypted container with a good password first and foremost. ideally, don't put photos in the cloud. if you need the cloud for less personal files, encrypt as stated before and proton or tersorit are good options. subsets of your photos could be uploaded depending on use case and your situation. some people are fine uploading if they encrypt first and don't care about which procider they user but that's your personal risk tolerance level and all that jazz.
Random question: people in the Privacy Sphere always quote that Snowden mentioned that he uses Signal. But when I tried to find the primary source for that, I couldn't find it. Could maybe someone point me to the primary source for that? I know it has nothing to do with the video, but I figured there would be someone in these comments who knows it, and it is an argument I might want to make with friends and family at some point.
I've had a lot of problems with native nextcloud option for backup, and switched to davx5. But, nextcloud photo synch works well. I use smbsync2, with an automated workflow on the server side to catalog and split to multiple archives for backup redundancy. Lose your baby's photos one time and...
The video was really helpful. The only thing is I am reluctant to use any cloud service even if it is encrypted. I always keep my data backed up on my desktop pc that is not connected to internet, not even any local network connection. I think having a device with no network connection is the safest way to store your personal data.
Greetings Naomi 😃, as always hope that you and the family are all well 🙏🏾 The main question that we have to ask is this, If your operating system ‘Apple 🍎 in this instant’ 😉 has client side scanning before encrypting, then again our privacy is none existent. How do we win? Are we not fighting a losing battle? Have a blessed weekend 🙏🏾
Your phone doesn't know which NAS is your home network. That's shortsightedness on the part of the developers. You should be able to specify a network as being your home network and give it a specific pass key.
For years I've been using resilio sync. Not open source, i know, but works very well. You choose some folders you want to synchronize, then synchronize them peer to peer between a set of computers or devices. Data is encrypted with AES 128 in transit. You can also choose to only share fully encrypted copies of the files with an external device if you dont trust it, in which case you have full end to end encryption. I use that together with an online web server, and voila, private cloud storage.
I use Proton/iCloud for most of my files but sadly Google Photos is still my one guilty pleasure but I’d love a viable alternative for me. With 40,000 photos, I need an effective way of searching for them or it’s useless. As soon as that gets better elsewhere, I’m shifting. Not even iCloud Photos compares sadly.
For self-hosting, Immich is an amazing Google Photos alternative. But for cloud offerings, yeah there's not much that's on par feature wise that I've found yet.
So I tried Proton Drive for photo backup. It seems that after a photo is backed up and I delete it from the Drive app, it remains on my local device storage. Same in reverse: if I delete a photo locally, it remains in Proton Drive. Am I supposed to manage my media in two separate apps now to keep them synchronized? I'm not really sure how this is usable.
Can you please elaborate more on the privacy part on the photos because as far as I can tell a simple web link can unlock the files for viewing in the web browser which does not sound private at all to me.
I'd love to try to self host stuff locally, but it would make me anxious for two reasons: 1. Can I secure access to the server easily? 2. Higher chance of drive failure than, let's say, Proton Drive. Any tips? :)
1) This topic can go quite deep but the simplest answer is to keep whatever device you're using to self-host on behind a firewall and don't expose it outside your LAN. If you need to access it when you're not home, you can setup a VPN to remote in securely. Setting up a Wireguard VPN isn't too complex if you simply follow a guide but you can also use something like Tailscale. Alternatively, if you do want to selectively expose certain services, you could utilize something like Cloudflare Tunnels via their Zero Trust service to act as a secure reverse proxy (you can even configure Cloudflare's authentication in front of these exposed applications, kind of blurring the line). 2) Redundant storage (whether it be hardware-based like a RAID controller or software-based like Unraid or ZFS) significantly helps with reducing the chance of data loss due to drive failures, but you should always keep an off-site backup for critical files. This could be another NAS or similar device left at a family members home or simply a cloud service, like Proton Drive.
I store my own on my own cloud. No cost except to purchase and run the hard drives. I wish I had a permanent form of saving my stuff that will never go away like a forever disk. I don’t really need a HD running all the time for something I don’t always access.
I use ResilioSync to sync my phone's photos to my computers, one of which gets only an encrypted copy, which is the only one that gets backed up to the cloud.
@@NaomiBrockwellTV You just have to create an encrypted share from a PC because there's no option to do it on the mobile app. Then you do a read/write link for the phone to use, and an encrypted link for the other PC (or sandboxed/virtualised ResilioSync copy) to use for cloud backup. Just make sure you keep a secured copy of the read/write key so you can restore from the encrypted copy if need be.
well done on where to store photos, I am very old school still, put things to an old external hard drive and print out the highlight photos as well for a photo album lol
Honestly. We will eventually have to come up with a new petition to create a new bill regarding privacy laws to keeps companies, like google, microsoft, etc along with governments that should have limited reach to our privacy data. Until we do this, we're not really protected are we?
Anyone who uses off-site storage for personal or confidential data needs to have their heads read. Giving anything you value to a stranger to "look after for you" with the belief that they will respect your privacy or not take advantage of you if they can gain from it is infantile in its level of foolishness.
Have fun when you lose all your data in a fire or natural disaster. Not having off-site backups of your critical data is just playing with fire, in some cases, literally. Just to clarify, off-site does not solely mean cloud (which is what I'm assuming you meant by stranger). It could be another location you own, at a family member's, a friend's, etc. 3-2-1, the "gold standard" of backups is very specific about having at least one copy off-site.
@@DanWalshTV As you obviously know, I was using the term "off-site" to refer to what most people today think of when they say "cloud storage". Just to be sure - that was exactly what I meant. Now that I'm fairly sure that you understand what I'm saying, we can put this to bed.
Is it possible that Proton has removed the Photo Backup feature for the iPhone? I don't have the "Photos" button in the app and all help on the Proton website is for Android
They didn't remove it, it simply hasn't been released yet. The photo backup feature on Android is still relatively new and will be coming to the iOS version in the near future.
I suspect that all of the data in the cloud is being used to train large language models no matter whether the data is secure or not. I only place data in the cloud when I want to share it with others.
Doesn't make it excusable to still violate ones privacy in ones absence AND direct presence. I don't care to see what's on someone's phone or in it near or away from me. Although the agenda to normalize is pushed, I'm not with that shit.
We're honored to be featured as a go-to photo backup solution by Naomi and the NBTV team! Thank you all!
im looking into Nextcloud for a privacy focused alternative to Google workspace (docs/drive/sheets/ect.). Cool to know it will do backups as well.
After hearing about NextCloud, I am planning on setting up a server as a summer project now. Thanks for making such an awesome product.
Whatever you back up, use a 3-2-1 pattern. 3 copies, 2 of which online and 1 off line. A gold standard in backing ups.
128GB BD-XL Sony discs and Linear Tape-Open cassettes (which can cost cost around $45 for 6 TB of data storage) are better than simply using external HDD drives as backup.
I've a slightly different definition for this pattern. (3) At least three copies of the data (i.e. primary plus at least two backups); (2) At least two different media types (e.g. magnetic, solid state, optical); (1) At least one copy off site. I like your notion of two online copies and one offline, where online means immediately accessible (not necessarily on the internet), and where offline is on media that is effectively write only and unpowered to guard from malware, for example.
@@spicychad55why the HDs are not better? dealing with tons of discs is a pain. Maybe chepear but I prefer dual HDs. 1:1 copy.
That's not how it works. The 3-2-1 rule is 3 copies on at least 2 different forms of medium, 1 of which is off site. Industry standard.
@@JohnSmith-zl8rz The disc thing is a bit weird of a suggestion, but LTO's (data tapes) are pretty cheap. I just looked and you get get a 45TB tape for $100. Not sure how much data you have, but that single tape would laste me quite a while.
A brand new Naomi upload is exactly what you need to start off Friday.
So I can spend a weekend reviewing all my services for privacy issues!
I was JUST reshearching replacing google photos with proton yesterday. Thank you! This is freaky timing
woot!
@@NaomiBrockwellTV Why is Mega not mentioned?
20Gb of encrypted storage for free accounts, with 5gb/6h limit.
@@asbeltrion ua-cam.com/video/yND3ogYFVp0/v-deo.html
@@asbeltrion because we can not prove they are safe , also owned by some suspicious companies.
@@asbeltrion just because it's free for a given size doesn't make it good or safe,
Regarding the Synology NAS, I'd like to add that Synology supports 'QuickConnect', which allows you to access your NAS from the Internet without having to poke holes in your firewall. Also, Synology supports cloud backup of your NAS with local side encryption and only you have the key (don't lose it!). Very private and secure as far as I'm aware.
Thank you for everything you do Naomi. It's much appreciated!
I always use Syncthing, a FOSS application to synchronize files across various devices. In my case I have a one-way synchronization, pushing all photos from my local photos folder to my Server/NAS. It is pretty easy to set up, at least not harder than something like Synology Photos. It is not just available for Synology and works pretty reliably in the background, at least on non-iPhones.
It could also be an option for people without a server who have a PC though (Windows, Mac Linux). Then it would always push the photos if both, the phone and the PC are running and connected to the same network . For most people, this should be the case if their PC is running.
I think this might even be the best opinion. It even works securely encrypted over the internet without opening ports.
@hiamben I just noticed a minor loss of battery life. Perhaps 1-2% more per day than without. However, my phone has a rather big 5000mAh battery (4 years old now). On my old phone (S7) it would probably have drained the battery as you described.
thanks for the suggestion!
@hiamben This is also my setup with syncthing running 24/7 on my pixel 6a. Less than 1% battery drain.
Big fan of Syncthing. Sort of a fork/clone of BitTorrent/Resilio Sync. Every time I take a picture on my phone - bam - it's on my computer. It'll even wait if the computer is off. I also use it to sync a bunch of audio books from my PC back to the phone.
The only downside I've had is that Android will occasionally kill the app to save memory. Not often, though.
@@Insightfill In newer Android versions, in addition to the option to allow an app to run in the background, there is also the option to stop the app activity when not in use. This is always on by default. I would try deactivating this.
The answer to "who else gets access" is always "anyone that wants access" and every bot out there.
Ente Photos should definitely be there!!!
Naomi, a good video as usual, but as a proton user i dont recommend it for photo backup just yet. you can not create folders or should i say albums, therefore if you are like me and have hundreds if not thousands of photos, it just becomes a total mess with no structure and trying to find a particular photo to view is frustrating and time consuming. eventually proton will sort this out, but they are slow to update there apps. So i would go with Mega which is end to end encrypted for now. Great channel Naomi and i appreciate your effort in trying to educate us all.
Thanks
Please tell me I am not the only one who turns off the cloud and backs up to my own local devices?
You are NOT alone! Like you, I simply do not use the "cloud" AKA "some other schmuck's crappy computer."
this is the way :)
@@NaomiBrockwellTV Oh, my! You show your face! Where is your helmet? 😆🤣
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All of my pictures are stored on a hard drive on my computer, this drive is mirrored to another drive on the same computer. The pictures are copied once a week to an external drive. Other than the pictures I publish on my websites, none leave my computer.
In addition, all of my pictures are taken with a camera an not a phone or tablet.
@@johnmilton7578 If you are not already, you should really look to keep a copy of external drive in another location, which is not in the same property as your computer and the first external drive. As if there was a major issue such as a fire/flood, you could lose them all
A huge problem with proton drive is web and javascript. When using web browsers, client-side code has to come from the server, so the server could still become a bad guy and send you malicious client-side code and then see all your data
It's end to end encrypted only because the client-side code isn't malicious
It would be noticed by people if this happened at large scale, but the server could target some IPs at the request of law enforcement and send this malicious code only to those IPs, and it would never be noticed
Yes, Rob Braxman doesn't recommend proton
Not just web and javascript but any client which the service operator can update. The concept of zero trust is misleading marketing IMO. Zero trust is still good to have and increases security against some threats, but using any cloud service requires some trust.
Proton photos is not available on the iOS app (as of today, Feb 22).
thx that explains why i wasnt able to find the option on my phone :D
Syncthing is free and open source and syncs things between devices. I just sync my photos folder to my computer which itself gets backed up to an external hard drive.
You should have mentioned PhotoPrism and Immich as self hosted option
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you can also self-host something like Immich!
thanks for the heads up!
I was _very_ pleasantly surprised when the host said that _none_ of the products mentioned were sponsors. Live to hear it. I was half expecting Proton to be sponsored now that their shelling out money to UA-camrs for ad reads. Keep it up, you are all very principled.
😕😕😕
An amazing video as always , for me I use proton drive sometimes and mainly Mega as its easy to setup
Whoa... 😵💫 So much info. Thank you for it, though! Very useful!
Could you do a video about operating systems?
Mainly Windows and how to better protect user’s privacy in it?
don't use windows ❤️ glasswire is something you can instal to block telemetry if you absolutely must use windows
@@NaomiBrockwellTV Also, there's is the O&O shutup for windows. it will make windows stop leaking info.
Apple's problem is icloud, the only way to avoid is to use only the very first iPhone. With Android only use 1.0 or something earlier than ginger bread. OR use a de-google Android phone
Glasswire has a lot of telemetry. Porrmaster is a better option@@NaomiBrockwellTV
Immich is a self-host Google alternative.
The development team are working hard to be a like-for-like replacement.
I second this.
Thank you for covering selfhosting, please include more of this! My personal setup is syncing my phone to Immich (self-hosted Google Photos replacement), and then backing this up to a second NAS on-site and also to Proton Drive. I use Wireguard to VPN into my home connection, so I can backup my photos using Immich from anywhere.
Immich + Proton Drive is my go-to solution as well. Immich is awesome and by far the best self-hosted photo backup/gallery solution readily available.
Burn your pics to a dual layer blu-ray 50gb disc. I doubt you'll ever need anything else. NEVER store personal photos on the 'cloud'. Previous comments are correct. The only private secure computer is one that is NOT connected to the internet. Period.
Optical discs eventually die/degrade, even if it's a matter of decades :(
@@Entertainment-is6ex Noted. That is why I replace the discs about every 2 years. The cloud is just another computer system owned by someone else.
@@veritasaequitas8441 Good shout!
There are special types of DVD/BD which claim more durability/longevity than normal (e.g. M-Disc) which may help reduce the frequency of rotation, though not sure how much more reliable they are.
In any case I would probably need an annoying number of BDs to backup/rotate all my data (so might look to use multiple HDDs or even LTO tape).
Do you also store versions of these discs off-site at another location? If not, they're not truly backed up.
Samsung Back up for Android end to end encryption
You did your homework as always! Thanks for posting this video.
I already know google can see anything stored.
So why they need to violate longer than necessary is puzzling. Or not really I should say.
I started just encrypted my backups myself and saving it to Google Drive. At least until I get a nas set up in my house.
Top Notch info .. Please can you do a dive into ITERNET COMPUTER by Difinity
I don't think proton is a good option for backup. There have many good option in market like pcloud.
And I also think that giving all my details to one company is much more riskier than choosing different company for different usages pattern.
The most recommend option in proton is Proton Unlimited plan where we get drive, mail, password manager and vpn and I don't like to give all my data to one company
Great one! Another great tool is "syncthing" You can synchronize all the folders you want, with how many endpoint you want (enabling multiple copies for security). And on top of that you can do all of this through Tor :P Would be great to present such an implementation!
Syncthing is great, I agree
My phone just uploads all pictures to my my Nextcloud server, which has redundant backups. Problem solved.
Use film, develop and print at home. (joke) 😄
Thank you, for amazing content love it)
That's what people used to do, I what's wrong with it.
Personally I prefer to go old school and back up to another piece (or two) of hardware at home. Might take more time but I feel safer doing this than having my private photos zipping around the internet, encrypted or not. It's shocking how many people have no idea that all their private photos are like an open book to Google (and others).
Wow
You don't keep them on Google Photos?
Bought my NAS two years ago and have been using Synology photos ever since, supper happy about the experience! TY Naomi.
When you have to give permission to Google to use your!!! camera on your smartphone what did they expect.
i'm trying to break free from monthly cloud backup subscription fees thanks for this. I wonder if iOS specific features like Live photos are actually preserved with proton backup or with using synology nas. I actually like those few seconds of video and audio--like a harry potter moving portrait to go along with the still photo--and it all should be backed up not just the stills. Really miss having microSD cards built in to phones. Would love to have a 1.5TB expansion card for my iphone.
That's great. I'm told Apple no longer allows Iphone backup on Windows computers, leaving only Icloud. Local alternatives to that would be lovely. 😊
I use MEGA which came with 20GB free storage, it has end-to-end encryption and I can automatically sync / upload photos from my phone to MEGA. Up to 16TB of storage is available for individual accounts.
50gb of free storage for old users and yes backing up photos is easy
I use Syncthing on my GrapheneOS and on my Debian server. Automatic photo backup.
I only have stuff backed up offline on an external drive.
Proton drive one of the best cloud picture or not
I have a Synology NAS. The photo backup to NAS you covered was interesting, but doesn't allow for photo backup when out of the house. I'd hate to be on a killer vacation, lose my phone and have no backup of the photos.
Of course it can, you just haven't configured it correctly to do so.
Setup a quick connect id in the Synology nas and use that in the photos app and it will be able to access the outside of your network..
if the cloud is to be used, put it in an encrypted container with a good password first and foremost. ideally, don't put photos in the cloud. if you need the cloud for less personal files, encrypt as stated before and proton or tersorit are good options. subsets of your photos could be uploaded depending on use case and your situation. some people are fine uploading if they encrypt first and don't care about which procider they user but that's your personal risk tolerance level and all that jazz.
99% of people can't pass their everyday life without Google. Even we see your video in Google’s service. So YOU can't neglect it
Random question: people in the Privacy Sphere always quote that Snowden mentioned that he uses Signal. But when I tried to find the primary source for that, I couldn't find it.
Could maybe someone point me to the primary source for that? I know it has nothing to do with the video, but I figured there would be someone in these comments who knows it, and it is an argument I might want to make with friends and family at some point.
twitter.com/Snowden/status/1350132648476344331
twitter.com/Snowden/status/661313394906161152
@@NaomiBrockwellTV Great, thank you a lot!
I've had a lot of problems with native nextcloud option for backup, and switched to davx5. But, nextcloud photo synch works well. I use smbsync2, with an automated workflow on the server side to catalog and split to multiple archives for backup redundancy. Lose your baby's photos one time and...
The video was really helpful.
The only thing is I am reluctant to use any cloud service even if it is encrypted. I always keep my data backed up on my desktop pc that is not connected to internet, not even any local network connection. I think having a device with no network connection is the safest way to store your personal data.
Greetings Naomi 😃, as always hope that you and the family are all well 🙏🏾 The main question that we have to ask is this, If your operating system ‘Apple 🍎 in this instant’ 😉 has client side scanning before encrypting, then again our privacy is none existent. How do we win? Are we not fighting a losing battle? Have a blessed weekend 🙏🏾
I store all my data on 2 external hard drives
wish there was an alternative for backing up contacts, calendars, etc...
I'm on Graphene, and my proton drive is not syncing. It says it does but it is stuck on the same remaning nulber of files. Anyone faced this issue ?
Is iPhone end-to-end encryption actually zero knowledge, or are the photos available on their servers?
they say it's zero knowledge. It's closed source so no way to verify for sure
Connect phone to PC, copy all photo's over to VeraCrypt encrypted container. Done.
will you be doing the filecoin tutorial? I look forward to that.
Your phone doesn't know which NAS is your home network.
That's shortsightedness on the part of the developers.
You should be able to specify a network as being your home network and give it a specific pass key.
For years I've been using resilio sync. Not open source, i know, but works very well. You choose some folders you want to synchronize, then synchronize them peer to peer between a set of computers or devices. Data is encrypted with AES 128 in transit. You can also choose to only share fully encrypted copies of the files with an external device if you dont trust it, in which case you have full end to end encryption. I use that together with an online web server, and voila, private cloud storage.
great video Naomi, always top!
What about OneDrive from Microsoft?
This is great video, as usual! 💚
But if I use Sync instead of Proton Drive, give Sync the same privacy?
Thanks a lot for your work! 🙏
odd... why did you exclude things like immich, ente and maybe even tailscale 'n friends?
Less a UA-cam account via a yahoo, I have ceased using Google for anything and dont use iCloud for anything.
And this why you should store as much as private data locally on a system with RAID or Arrays with dual parity’s.
Is it really end to end encryption when you don't set the passphrase? If Apple owns the keys they can decrypt that data.
The keys are stored on your device. They’re generated either when you first upload data or when you first boot up your device
Thank you
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I use Proton/iCloud for most of my files but sadly Google Photos is still my one guilty pleasure but I’d love a viable alternative for me. With 40,000 photos, I need an effective way of searching for them or it’s useless. As soon as that gets better elsewhere, I’m shifting. Not even iCloud Photos compares sadly.
For self-hosting, Immich is an amazing Google Photos alternative. But for cloud offerings, yeah there's not much that's on par feature wise that I've found yet.
So I tried Proton Drive for photo backup. It seems that after a photo is backed up and I delete it from the Drive app, it remains on my local device storage. Same in reverse: if I delete a photo locally, it remains in Proton Drive. Am I supposed to manage my media in two separate apps now to keep them synchronized? I'm not really sure how this is usable.
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Always remember: If they want it, they will get it; so, be wise on what you photograph and store.
I self hoasted all my backups. Then the fire spread to the location with the backups also. Poof, no more photos
oh no that's so sad!! Backups offsite is important
photoprism is what i use, locally hosted on my own NAS.
quick question, have you ever researched about the fingerprint dogles to help login to windows? are they safe?
Can you please elaborate more on the privacy part on the photos because as far as I can tell a simple web link can unlock the files for viewing in the web browser which does not sound private at all to me.
I'd love to try to self host stuff locally, but it would make me anxious for two reasons:
1. Can I secure access to the server easily?
2. Higher chance of drive failure than, let's say, Proton Drive.
Any tips? :)
1) This topic can go quite deep but the simplest answer is to keep whatever device you're using to self-host on behind a firewall and don't expose it outside your LAN. If you need to access it when you're not home, you can setup a VPN to remote in securely. Setting up a Wireguard VPN isn't too complex if you simply follow a guide but you can also use something like Tailscale. Alternatively, if you do want to selectively expose certain services, you could utilize something like Cloudflare Tunnels via their Zero Trust service to act as a secure reverse proxy (you can even configure Cloudflare's authentication in front of these exposed applications, kind of blurring the line).
2) Redundant storage (whether it be hardware-based like a RAID controller or software-based like Unraid or ZFS) significantly helps with reducing the chance of data loss due to drive failures, but you should always keep an off-site backup for critical files. This could be another NAS or similar device left at a family members home or simply a cloud service, like Proton Drive.
I use and like Syncthing for backing up my photos to my home PC.
Please Compare Filen & Proton Drive
Thanks Naomi, really appreciate the insight.
love your works, thanks.
I store my own on my own cloud. No cost except to purchase and run the hard drives. I wish I had a permanent form of saving my stuff that will never go away like a forever disk. I don’t really need a HD running all the time for something I don’t always access.
I use ResilioSync to sync my phone's photos to my computers, one of which gets only an encrypted copy, which is the only one that gets backed up to the cloud.
thanks for the heads up!
@@NaomiBrockwellTV You just have to create an encrypted share from a PC because there's no option to do it on the mobile app. Then you do a read/write link for the phone to use, and an encrypted link for the other PC (or sandboxed/virtualised ResilioSync copy) to use for cloud backup. Just make sure you keep a secured copy of the read/write key so you can restore from the encrypted copy if need be.
What about a simple NAS, a USB drive plugged in to the router-modem?
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i use mega. is it good?
I think so, here is our evaluation: ua-cam.com/video/yND3ogYFVp0/v-deo.html
What is your opinion on pCloud or Mega?
well done on where to store photos, I am very old school still, put things to an old external hard drive and print out the highlight photos as well for a photo album lol
Same
why does proton drive STILL not have photos? apple delaying because they can't see your stuff?
I love my Synology. Best investment I ever made.
I tried MEGA once instead of Google Photos. 1 year after they deleted all my photos and videos. Now i just backup to sds or hds 😅
Honestly. We will eventually have to come up with a new petition to create a new bill regarding privacy laws to keeps companies, like google, microsoft, etc along with governments that should have limited reach to our privacy data. Until we do this, we're not really protected are we?
Anyone who uses off-site storage for personal or confidential data needs to have their heads read. Giving anything you value to a stranger to "look after for you" with the belief that they will respect your privacy or not take advantage of you if they can gain from it is infantile in its level of foolishness.
Have fun when you lose all your data in a fire or natural disaster. Not having off-site backups of your critical data is just playing with fire, in some cases, literally. Just to clarify, off-site does not solely mean cloud (which is what I'm assuming you meant by stranger). It could be another location you own, at a family member's, a friend's, etc. 3-2-1, the "gold standard" of backups is very specific about having at least one copy off-site.
@@DanWalshTV As you obviously know, I was using the term "off-site" to refer to what most people today think of when they say "cloud storage". Just to be sure - that was exactly what I meant. Now that I'm fairly sure that you understand what I'm saying, we can put this to bed.
Is it possible that Proton has removed the Photo Backup feature for the iPhone? I don't have the "Photos" button in the app and all help on the Proton website is for Android
They didn't remove it, it simply hasn't been released yet. The photo backup feature on Android is still relatively new and will be coming to the iOS version in the near future.
@@DanWalshTV Great to know, thank you for taking the time to answer this!
Mysterfied that anybody would any information that is solely on their phone. That would be lunacy
Pity that great project called immich was skipped..
I suspect that all of the data in the cloud is being used to train large language models no matter whether the data is secure or not. I only place data in the cloud when I want to share it with others.
Better yet, Don't use Google For ANYTHING !
hi nbtv do you recommend CalyxOS?
Bummer Proton Drive does not have automatic iPhone back up😢
what about syncthing?
If it’s on the internet, it is NOT private.
Doesn't make it excusable to still violate ones privacy in ones absence AND direct presence. I don't care to see what's on someone's phone or in it near or away from me. Although the agenda to normalize is pushed, I'm not with that shit.
Goo films your bedtime activities.
@@goldcic They WANT to. There's nothing normal about that.
not true
What about E2EE ??😂😂
Why not just print the ones you wNt tokeep and just delete the rest. This is ridiculous about giving the to a cloud you don't own out right
As always great video.
Thoughts about Internxt?
If only someone told Hitler about next cloud 😂😂😂 11:08