📅 2025-12-14 — Session: Evaluated Cost-Effective Cloud Storage Options
🕒 16:10–19:00
🏷️ Labels: Cloud Storage, Cost-Effective, Encryption, Backup, Google Drive
📂 Project: Business
Session Goal: The goal of this session was to explore and evaluate cost-effective cloud storage solutions as alternatives to Google Storage for capacities ranging from 100 GB to 500 GB.
Key Activities:
- Researched and documented various affordable cloud storage services such as IDrive, Wasabi, Backblaze, pCloud, MEGA, and Sync, focusing on pricing and performance.
- Compared security features of cloud storage services including encryption, compliance, and zero-knowledge security.
- Recommended pCloud with client-side encryption and Backblaze B2 for users with different security needs.
- Investigated Google Storage options, including Google One, Google Workspace, and Google Cloud Storage, focusing on pricing, features, and encryption methods.
- Developed a backup automation script using bash and rclone for Google Drive, including safety checks and encryption steps.
Achievements:
- Identified and compared multiple cost-effective cloud storage solutions with detailed insights into their security features.
- Provided actionable recommendations for cloud storage based on security and cost considerations.
- Created a robust backup script for automating data backup to Google Drive.
Pending Tasks:
- Further analysis on the integration of recommended cloud storage solutions into existing workflows.
- Testing and validation of the backup automation script in different environments.