Spider Oak (Cloud Service) & FreeNAS

[Dan101]

HI everyone,

Just like to start by saying I've been using FreeNAS for more than a year now and its been a fantastic learning journey. The last significant milestone for me was when I moved / consolidated all my data to a self-built FreeNAS machine using server quality parts (Supermicro mobo, ECC ram etc), running ZFS.

There are still lots for me to learn however. I am still pretty new.

So this is my question: Is there a plug-in or anyway I can have certain files / folders which are stored on my FreeNAS machine to be backed up to a cloud service such as Spider Oak? Though I am not technical at all, I admire the company's so-called 'zero knowledge' of your PW and data and that they say they employ de-duplication of the data which gets uploaded, thereby conserving your quota. (not that you should have duplicate data to begin with).

I have been using SO before I started playing with FreeNAS. I think a cloud service offers another layer of "backup". Of course I will be selecting only a sub-set of my data from FreeNAS to be put on the cloud- essential stuff like tax returns, personal documents etc. So if my house burns down (touchwood) I still have record of my documents.

If there isn't one, I'll strong advocate perhaps some plug-in can be written to communicate with SO servers.

Hope someone here who knows can chime in...

Cheers,
Daniel

 

[ZFS Noob]

<cough>Or Amazon Glacier!</cough>

 

[fracai]

SpiderOak is available from the ports tree. I'd think it'd be a good candidate for a plugin.

https://www.freshports.org/net/spideroak/

 

[cyberjock]

So they want to dedup encrypted data. That's a laugh. Clearly marketing BS.

 

[fracai]

Here's someone who got duplicity to work with Amazon Glacier: http://blog.epsilontik.de/?page_id=68

Also, you can dedup with encryption. The benefit you receive depends on when the dedup occurs. In SpiderOak's case, they don't dedup across users and it occurs before the encryption is applied. They could dedup across users as well, but this would leak information about common files.

https://spideroak.com/blog/20100827...s-users-and-why-it-should-worry-you-if-we-did