![]() ![]() The primary problem was the Hotmail Outlook Connector, which isn’t ready yet for prime time. However, the integration with desktop Outlook and my custom domain isn’t good enough yet to rely on. Hotmail is a fine system for online access to mail, contacts and calendar that integrates well with Windows Phone 7. The cloud is still forming, however, so hasn’t really been able to make this a seamless experience, which is why I’m onto part 2 of this series. It provides me freedom of location or vendor. The cloud enables me to get myself bootstrapped with data associated with my personal or business life, using whatever device or OS I feel like using that day. Also, multi-device access is certainly useful, since the world has moved into a heterogeneous OS world again as smartphones and tablets take their place at the table with PCs.įor me, however, moving my data into the cloud is about freedom. There are also the ease of sharing, since email makes a very poor file sharing system. Lots of vendors are busy making this possible, but why? There are backup reasons, of course, so that a fire or other natural disaster doesn’t wipe out all of the family pictures. In part 1 of this now multi-part series (who knew?), I discussed my initial attempts at moving my digital life into the cloud, including files, music, photos, notes, task lists, mail, contacts, calendar and PC games.There were some issues, however, and some things that I forgot, so we have part 2.īefore we get to that, however, it’s interesting (for me, at least) to think about why it’s important to be able to move things into the cloud. In the end, I have 3 versions - the unencrypted source, the encrypted Boxcryptor copy, and the pCloud backup which contains the encrypted copy.Īlso important to note - pCloud is based in Germany and thus subject to the EU data protection laws and even without that I find pCloud to be a much lesser risk in terms of data privacy than any company in the US.Decemspout Moving to the Cloud Part 2: Mostly Sunny Then, The pCloud software is set up to automatically sync that Boxcryptor directory where the files show in their encrypted format (the "drive" version shows them unencrypted because everything is done on the fly both ways) to my pCloud storage. ![]() So I have my primary source drive synced with the Boxcryptor drive/location and Boxcryptor is set up on my machine to encrypt the data on the fly as it is copied (surprisingly, this is not the default setting). Both pCloud and Boxcryptor show up as physical drives on your computer, which I find convenient. So what I do is use Boxcryptor to encrypt the "destination" drive and then I use pCloud as my third-party storage provider. I am fine with my filenames being seen, but the content being encrypted. If the data is encrypted on the third-party system, it's largely a non-risk in terms of privacy unless your filenames themselves put your privacy at risk. So if you're dead set on cutting out a third-party, I understand. I do one additional thing, and it's for third-party storage. The software I use is Allway Sync (free for up to a certain amount of backed up data per month, after that a one time fee for lifetime updates). ![]() I happen to use 4TB HGST drives in a Mediasonic PROBOX 4 tower hooked into a PCIe card in my computer that connects them all through one multichannel eSATA cable. I buy two of whatever drive(s) will contain the duplicated data and just do a clean mirror using whatever backup software you desire. A storage array in JBOD (non-raid) setup. ![]()
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