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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 d...

Installation & Upgrade

BrianL2

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jul 08, 2016

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
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 08, 2016
BrianL2 wrote:

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

But the files themselves are not, correct?
- BrianL2
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Jul 13, 2016
  Hi StephenB,
  
  Though we transmit data securely through an encrypted tunnel to ACD, we don't encrypt files.
  
  Kind regards,
  
  BrianL
  NETGEAR Community Team
  - pingjockey
    Tutor
    Sep 10, 2016
    Brian and Readynas team:
    
    File encryption would be an awesome feature to have so that I can securely (well as securet can in a cloud environment) store offsite copies of my files.