Cloud Backup & Sync
Should you enable this optional feature? Read and decide.
Cloud Sync & Backup is switched off by default. This page will help you to decide whether you want to activate it. Better Clipboard will save plenty of your time without this feature but even more if you activate it. Read below, understand and make your decision whether to activate it.
The most reliable backup
- Next time you install Better Clipboard it will give you access to the data you collected on your old computer.
- Did your computer crash? Not your Better Clipboard clips!
- There is no need to have any cloud service client installed on your PC/device. All you need is a valid cloud service provider account.
Sync up clips across all your devices
- Your clips can be synced across all your PCs and mobile devices.
- One of the fastest way how to send text or image from one of your devices to another.
Why is it safe?
- All your data / images are encrypted which means your cloud provider cannot read / see it.
- And we as Better Clipboard developers do not have any access to your local computer nor your cloud provider servers.
- Only you own the combination of the 2 above factors. That means only you have access to your unencrypted data.
How does it work?
In a slightly simplified terminology we can say that the Better Clipboard application uses the cloud provider (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive) of your choice the same way you use it as a user. Have you ever put any photo or text file to e.g. Dropbox and synced it with your other computer? Then you did something similar Better Clipboard does.
There is however one big difference. Better Clipboard adds a security layer on top of the one your cloud provider does. It encrypts all your data into unreadable stream of characters. It also splits your clips to different data chunks where only Better Clipboard knows how to put them back together.
The key point in our cloud sync security model is the separation of the encryption / decryption abilities from the physical access to your data. We (Better Clipboard) know how to decrypt your data but because we do not provide any cloud storage functionality we cannot physically access your data. Your cloud provider, on the other hand, can access your data but they cannot decrypt it. If you have ever trusted some your files to any of the the well established cloud providers you can trust this sync model even more because it delivers an extra security layer: the separation of concerns.
Limitations
At the moment only Dropbox is available as Better Clipboard cloud provider. Support of the other cloud services (OneDrive, Google Drive, Amazon Drive, etc.) will be added upon users’ demand.
How to enable Cloud Sync – Tutorial
1) Click the “Cloud Sync & Backup” button
2) Select the cloud service (currently only Dropbox available)
3) Click the “Auth via…” button. It will open our web page in your browser.
4) Sign in to your cloud provider account. Copy the text in your browser to your OS clipboard
5) Click the “Close” button
6) Notice the cloud symbol. The Cloud Sync feature should be active by now.
