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nitro001
Aspirant
Jul 07, 2016

Amazon Cloud Drive 1-Way Sync and Encryption

Hello,

I have been a long time NV+ user (9 years), and an NV user before that.

I wrote a thread a little while ago contemplating updating from the NV+ to a newer model, looking for something that did Plex, etc...

 

One thing I do want to look at is the Amazon Cloud Drive, as I want off-site backup and cloud drive has a good price for it.  However, I am not sure of its feature set for backups. From what I can tell it is currently a 2 way sync and not 1 way directional for backup purposes and is a full share sync.

 

Secondly, there is nothing to indicate if it is encrypted or not.  I know other NAS vendors, such as Synology have the option to encrypt data as it is stored on the Cloud and sync specific folders in 1 direction as well.

 

Are the options to sync specific folders available and encrypt the data availalbe?  There are some folders I would not want to send to the cloud and they are all on 1 share (really don't want to mess with symbolic links for folders though).

And is Encryption available for files/folders?

 

If they are not, are they planned for an upcoming OS release?

 

Thanks,

Nathan

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  • BrianL2's avatar
    BrianL2
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Hi nitro001,

     

    Amazon Cloud Drive or ACD, does bidirectional (two-way) sync. You can select share/s from your ReadyNAS system that you want to sync with your Amazon Cloud Drive folders. Lastly, the backup or sync is HTTPS (SSL) encrypted.

     

     

    Kind regards,

     

    BrianL
    NETGEAR Community Team

    • StephenB's avatar
      StephenB
      Guru - Experienced User

      BrianL2 wrote:

       

        Lastly, the backup or sync is HTTPS (SSL) encrypted.

       


      But the files themselves are not, correct?

      • BrianL2's avatar
        BrianL2
        NETGEAR Employee Retired

        Hi StephenB,

         

        Though we transmit data securely through an encrypted tunnel to ACD, we don't encrypt  files.

         

         

        Kind regards,

         

        BrianL
        NETGEAR Community Team

         

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