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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.
  - BrianL2
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Sep 11, 2016
    Hi pingjockey,
    
    Your idea to improve the quality and functionality of the product is very much appreciated, and we thank you for sharing your interest in this. You may post this suggestion or idea at the Idea Exchange board. Adding or getting kudos will get more attention from our development team and might get considered to be added to the product's future functionality.
    
    Kind regards,
    
    BrianL
    NETGEAR Community Team