Hello everyone,
There are a few basic things in my current setup that I'm not very comfortable with. Since we're on blackfriday -> cybermonday I think it would be a nice season to make some changes [cloud - e-mail - calendar - cloud - DNS] Here's the deal:
E-mail / Calendar Strategy
- Using tuta for more than 2 years but I still rely on my gmail address for many things; issues with Tuta:
- troublesome to export/make backups (worse since I have many folders, would be folder by folder)
- not a fan of not having an e-mail client on my desktop (not issue in mobile phone), also don't love the calendar
What would be ideal:
- a nice mail provider, possibility of easy backups, possibility of using e-mail client (this one is not a hard requirement)
- Calendar, end-to-end encrypted: a hard requirement since I store some sensitive data there. Should be easy to see on mobile (e.g.: dedicated app); for desktop it does not matter much to me I guess the calendar requirement excludes nextcloud and most providers, as well as calDav stuff and similar
- I wouldn't mind if it would be 2 products working side by side if no alternatives are available (calendar and e-mail, but not ideal)
Backups and Cloud Storage (for redundancy)
- I have 1 cold backup at home, another at someone else's home (both encrypted) but to be safe I'd like to also have a trustworthy cloud Cloud: -end-to-end encrypted or -> next bullet
- compatibility with cryptomator is a big plus (though I want to avoid Apple/Google/MS/Dropbox)
- possibility of mounting the cloud storage as drive on my computer (not hard requirement this one)
- could be 2 products side by side (not ideal though): a storage solution for entire backup (wasabis and stuff) and a cloud solution (day to day usage)
DNS for filtering
I'd like a solution to have all traffic filtered (malware, ads) system wide on my laptop/desktop I have used adguard in the past; open to all other possibilities. I also have mullvadVPN; wouldn't using a different DNS defeat the purpose of the VPN? Or when VPN is on, the DNS is always the one of the VPN? Possibilities:
- controlD (i have seen people vouching for it)
- NextDNS (system settings)
- MullvadDNS (system settings)
- adguard desktop app
Malware / Virus / etc
I have a linux desktop and macOS laptop. My doubts are regarding macOS. I've seen so many new antivirus ads that it almost makes me think that I should have one. I have malwarebytes installed for occasional runs and CleanMyMacX (I have doubts regarding its security claims - I use more for system management)
- Should I opt for an antivirus program? If so, which would be advised intego is showing up all the time weirdly)
This time of the year is when I can gear up, since financially I haven't been at the top.
For those that will answer, thank you so much in advance!!!!
You could actually use Backblaze for both scenarios: as a normal cloud storage where you can access stuff back n forth or for long term backups and storage.
I use Duplicacy to copy and encrypt my main folders once a week. But you can set schedules for backups as you wish. Depending on how much you’re backing up it may get a bit pricey though. I have a little under a couple terabytes backed up and pay around $6 for Backblaze. They have a client I’ve never used that might be helpful as well.
One thing I wanna look into is using Duplicacy to also back up really important documents to my proton storage.
Yes that’s exactly what I was aiming for:
So with duplicati you’re able to send the backups to backblaze bucket in an encrypted way? What would I need to retrieve the data and unencrypt on computer if mine would break? How would you use backblaze as daily cloud? I thought it was mostly a bucket to drop stuff. Is there any way to mount it as a network drive while having everything encrypted ?
I have some answers that might help but there’s a few pieces that I need to write out on something other than mobile. Will reply back in a day or so.