How to back up data privately and securely to the cloud using Borg and Vorta

In this episode, we learn how to back up data privately and securely to the cloud using Borg and Vorta.

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0:00 Intro
2:04 Borg
6:53 Vorta

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[valegory]

I really appreciate this idea of working through multiple levels of depth across a few videos. On one hand, it's super important to keep stuff relatively doable without too much tech experience because privacy should be for everyone, but on the other hand I personally find the more in depth stuff really interesting and learn a lot from it.

[timfd.w.]

Indeed this is awesome. Vorta and Borgbase did the job professionally as or even better than paid software. Finally I have found something free that s well done

[pabstube]

I found your channel recently and i am loving the videos. Beautifully produce, excellent content and very well explained. Much appreciated!

[SigmaLiving]

Definitely deserve more than 6k subscribers!

[NeonMinnen]

Great video. I use Borg/Borgbase + Vorta all the time. Manu, the owner of BB and creator of Vorta is a great guy as well!

Cheers from Los Angeles.

[thorbag]

I'm sorry but that 'voooh!' is something i look for in every episode 😂

[notionpicture]

Hey Sun, been following your videos for a while, great content for privacy and security. Keep it up bro!

[alex-gqm]

wished I had found your channel earlier. You are amazing, Thank you!

[parttimeviking]

Of course we are sharing this. You are fantastic, keep it up! And please don't stop reminding anyone to not use sh*tty passwords. 😊 It is hilarious every time you say it — and very important.

[gordonfreeman]

Hey dude, thank you for making this. I love your content it's very helpful to get started and get a preview of things.

[kostiantynkarzhanov]

Awesome, i love your videos! It is a whole new world for me but very very interesting! Thank you! 💛

[starkxz]

Just discovered your channel. Really great content, it's hard to find professional content about privacy nowadays 👍

[KrishnaRamalingam]

Hi Sun, thanks a lot for these videos. They are super helpful. Could you answer these two questions?
1. How do you restore if my hard disc fails? Where are the keys saved in the mentioned method
2. Is it possible to have a single repository but mirrored in two computers? Something like what can be done with GDrive. So one can switch through multiple computers

[pixlplague]

Je suis vraiment impressionné par le contenu! T'as un des rares channels pour lequel j'ai un alerte automatique de nouveau vidéo.

[beefvalve]

great video once again, thanks sun. i so much love the idea of having something as convenient as icloud in the apple ecosystem, but being not only secure, but private also.
by the way: will there be a future episode about how to build a pi hole? i know you don't like the idea of blocking ads, but a pi hole does also block tracking!
(my two cents on ads: creators only get a little part of it, most of it goes to non-creators, and everybody knows websites that are so clustered with ads that you just close them immediately)
can't wait to see the coming 3 episodes of the borg series. keep it up!

[RandomPate]

Borg+Rclone script with Google Drive sounds like the best option. Unlimited storage, encrypted, deduplicated cloud backups. Paid with prepaid VISA cards you get from store w/ cash.
Plus the added privacy coming from the fact that everyone and their mom is storing stuff on Google, making sure your traffic doesn't stick out like a glowstick.

[seloud]

Hi Sun. Thanks for this video (I just discovered your channel and it looks great!). This backup process with Borg seems really interesting and the happy path scenario works great. But it should be nice to show a worst case scenario for which we lost all data in our laptop (laptop broken, destroyed or stolen). What must be restored locally in the (new) laptop in order to restore and decrypt our files from the backup? I guess that if the private key is not stored in a safe place, our backups will be useless. Correct?

[AntonVanleeuw]

2:42, that's not how git works. Generally it stores all files as blobs, change one line in a file and a whole new blob is created. After a while git will do some optimisations (including deduplication) to decrease its database size, but still.

[YotamGuttman]

thanks for this video. I've been actually looking for something about Borgbase for a while. it's not a well covered topic unfortunately... but I'm looking at running it on an Ubuntu VPS rather than a computer with gui.. so bírta vorta isn't really an option 😅

[pauldonahue]

Hey Sun. First off, you are amazing. I so appreciate your honesty and humility. I'm a tech wannabe and appreciate learning stuff from people like you. I stumbled onto you as I was setting up my new M1 Mac Mini, and while the stuff about the latest Russian cyber attacks was hitting the news. Wow, are you a Question, it seems that downloading Vorta may have messed up my Mac a bit. It's ok cause I ended up re-installing the OS. Was wondering about your thoughts and what you may think about the new M1 chip. I know you're busy so I'll patiently look forward to hearing from you. Hope you and your family are safe and well.