📅 2025-12-14 — Session: Evaluated Cloud Storage and Security Strategies

🕒 06:30–07:00
🏷️ Labels: Cloud Storage, Security, Backup, Cost Analysis, Encryption
📂 Project: Business

Session Goal:

The session aimed to evaluate cloud storage options for cost-effectiveness and implement robust security measures for data protection.

Key Activities:

  • Reviewed a comprehensive checklist for device security to prevent loss and theft, focusing on encryption, backup, and two-factor authentication.
  • Implemented a practical backup plan using the 3-2-1 principle, involving tools like Restic for encrypted backups and ensuring data redundancy.
  • Conducted a pricing analysis of various cloud storage providers, including Google One, Backblaze B2, pCloud, Wasabi, MEGA, and iDrive, focusing on storage capacities and cost per gigabyte.
  • Developed Python scripts to calculate storage costs, providing insights into economical storage solutions.
  • Compared cloud storage options for 100-500 GB, assessing cost, usability, and security features, and provided a decision guide for setup.

Achievements:

  • Established a secure and efficient backup strategy.
  • Gained insights into cost-effective cloud storage solutions.
  • Developed tools for precise cost analysis in cloud storage.

Pending Tasks:

  • Further exploration of transient atmospheric phenomena for potential observation and photography.