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Currently, nothing.
I store my photos on a 4TB local drive in my computer.
This autumn though, I have accepted that I need to bite the bullet and over pay for the last two drives in my NAS build.
I currently have four 8TB drives, but need two more to complete my plan for a zraid2 32TB storage array.
Backup?
I'm in IT and have fucked around with various NASs and different RAID setups for decades. What will annoy my fellow nerds, but is an absolute truth, is that Amazon photos, which is 'free' with Prime is a far, far better solution in terms of convenience, usability and reliability than anything else I've been doing. We've tens of thousands of photos synched to it and, not only that, we actually go back and look at these memories frequently as it's setup as a screen saver on our firesticks and other devices. We've literally watched a movie as a family and then spent half an hour after watching the picture slideshows that come up. Other than being part of the Amazon ecosystem which I know will garner righteous hatred (and perhaps rightly), I genuinely can't fault it and sleep easy knowing that my stuff is safe.
Incoming hatred because Amazon, like you said.
I used it for years, and it works well, and it's the cheapest option if you're already paying for prime, but fuck that shit I cancelled prime and don't miss it.
I have immich on a NAS, my phones backup to it, and I manually upload from my cameras. I have the NAS synced to a remote NAS I keep in another country with syncthing (not an option for everyone I know, but also not strictly necessary), which is backed up to Backblaze. Though that's getting expensive and beginning to enshitify so will likely figure out another solution soon.
Building a new NAS soon and I'll be looking at new cloud backup options then.
Do you back up to Immich via tailscale?
Did you start at Immich? My problem is I'm already set up at Synology Photos but am considering leaving for Immic. Maybe I'm crazy.
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If it works for you, who cares what others think. Sounds like a great time watching memories with your family.
Immich for backups from the phones.
PeerTube for videos worth sharing with friends and family.
Can you make videos private and only accessible to certain people on peertube??
Yes there are several ways to do it:
- Put a password on a specific video and share the password with specific people
- Make them "internal", they will not be distributed via activity pub and only people who have an account on your instance can see them (this is what I do, I gave friends and family an account on my instance, about 90% of my videos are internal)
- Make the video unlisted, like on youtube only people with the direct link can see it, doesn't federate and doesn't show up in lists or search
- Make it private, only you can see it
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Same here. Immich is on a vps from Contabo. And my PeerTube instance runs on dedicated physical server also with Contabo.
Synology's Photos system, NAS in my home with replicated backuos to an attached second volume. Haven't done offsite backups tho and that eats away at the back of my mind a tiny bit constantly. Just so damn expensive and inconvenient to back up well over a terabyte of photos and videos offsite in a zeeo-trust way (as in the backup provider or attackers oe law enforcement cannot ever decrypt them)
When (if?) it enshittifies I'm pretty sold on immich as a replacement tho, and I'm not sure yet how I'd do, like, auto backup from my phone, that shit just works crazy reliably with Synology Photos
I'm trying to make the leap from Synology to Immich.
Syncthing, automatic storage to my NAS and main PC.
I have this. I have Syncthing on our phones as well to backup our images to desktop, configured as when I move the images away on the desktop it makes room on the phone.
Excellent, I do love the way syncthing makes that simple.
I use SMBSync2 to move any pictures more than a month old into a backup folder so they don't clog my phone. Keeps things neat.
Desktop, backed up to NAS, nightly pushes to Backblaze b2. Have Immich pointed to the NAS with most of my photos / video as external storage. Any media uploaded to Immich (phone sync) also goes to the NAS and then b2.
I don't have photos or videos worth keeping, so I don't back them up. If the data gets lost, oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Local NAS
Photos: Hard copy. The negatives, if they were actual film.
Videos: I don't take any and the things I save can usually be found again. cough some vintage porn notwithstanding...
Photos/videos from my phone get backed up on two laptops and eventually an external drive. Photos from cameras do the same with the more interesting photos going to my phone as well. These all tend to be on the same physical location so I really should find better way.
Local NAS with Nextcloud open to the www.
PGP encrypted archives uploaded to Internxt, mirrored on an external SSD.
Nice try, government.
nothing fancy. manual backup to externals. store at home and the office. checksums are saved on the drives, and re-verified whenever we dig one out to fetch some files or to add more. don't really need more than that for photos and home movies, so no nas or cloud.
Immich to backup to my storage. Restic to back that up to cloud
Manual backups to externals - honestly nothing that really gets revisited that often so dont feel the need for setting up anything more complex.
Ente.
For my own, absolutely nothing, i don't like pictures. I will gladly let those disappear every time i switch the phone.
For my wifes, just from time to time coping those from mobile to PC and storing it on 2 different hard drives.
iCloud as primary, Proton Drive as secondary
Just synctjing to my local PC. From time to time I backup the important stuff to an external drive.
Immich to one server, syncthing to another. Both servers backed up with restic to hetzner storage box.
I have only used backup USB drives. Never have used a backup service ever. I use Acronis to back up my systems and then copy the TIB to the USB drive as well.
Filen and koofr
Synology. Syncing to their cheap cloud storage.
Uhh, while it's not prohibitively expensive, Synology C2 is definitely not what'd I'd call cheap. Backblaze or Hetzner, yeah. Especially if you go over 1TB, it turns into highway robbery.
I know because I've used all three :p
They just raised their rates, but they were cheaper than backblaze.
First, it gets saved to my main working partition, which is a 9-SSD ZFS Raid-Z array with double redundancy. (Can lose two drives without losing any data.)
It then gets automatically uploaded to my cloud backup, MEGA, with end-to-end encryption.
And finally, once per night, all files in my main working partition are backed up to my backup partition, a 3-HDD ZFS Raid-Z array with single redundancy. (Can lose one drive without losing any data.)
(And, of course, ZFS is copy-on-write, which means anything that's deleted or overwritten can still be recovered. Old versions of either partition can be mounted and accessed as if they were other drives. Especially useful in cases of accidental deletion or ransomware attack, etc.)
Videos, pictures, music, documents, and all of my family's computer backup files are stored on a local server that has five large drives. Carbonite is used to backup the server. I only need the basic plan.
Combination of HDs and cloud storage (don’t judge me too hard, Lemmings!)
SFTP hosted on a laptop + ZeroTier for accessibility
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