Hey folks. Me again.
After searching for information for the last few months on how to improve my backup system to the next level. I thought maybe I should ask the community. For now my only backup system is a WD (elements) external HDD of about 4TB encrypted with veracrypt and with a hidden partition for certain personal documents, videos and personal configuration files.
As a proton user (mail plus) I have been thinking about upgrading to proton ultimate for a while, but considering that there is still no GUI for linux and the storage they offer is about 500 GB it is not worth it for me. Then I thought about using tresit and to be honest I’m interested. unfortunately they are not OSS, but well, after seeing all the comments it doesn’t seem a bad option. The only problem is the price/TB. Almost 10 euros for 1 TB seems too little to me, at most I’m looking for a bit more than that (2 TB is good enough) as I plan to use it as an off-site backup for the next 8 years (until I can fix a couple of things in my live and finally start with a NAS).
Personally I am now using filen.io. But being a fairly new company that hasn’t had any audits yet has made me a bit wary, so I use cryptomator or veracrypt for very important files before uploading them.
I can’t read code (yet, it’s a hobby I might take up in the future), which is why an audit is important to me. Considering that I’m a bit clueless in all of this, I need at least an external instance with more knowledge than me that can provide me with the assurance that the product I’m using is doing what it claims to do.
So what I am looking for is a way to backup my linux boot configurations on my laptop to a partition container on my external HDD and also to the cloud. (preferably something that offers better value for money than tresorit. If there is currently no such thing, I will simply have to keep my words to myself and use the 1TB they are offering or use filen’s 2TB service for 8 euros a month for certain documents and the most important ones encrypted with cryptomator or veracrypt until the company has an audit. )
So what is your preferred way to accomplish this ? Hoping for different ideas to implement on my existing system and at least (i hope) this will last for the next 8 years before I can finally move to something completely off-site other than the cloud.