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Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

#12

Post by mickael-kerjean »

The solution I've used for the last 2-3 years:

1. a cronjob on my android phone (via termux) does an rsync to a VPS

2. the VPS has a cronjob to sync everything with S3

3. the frontoffice tool for people to access those photos is my open source Dropbox like frontend that is bring your own backend: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash My wife and I got an account and family members can access it through shared links.

The S3 bill goes to a shared account so that If I die, the VPS will probably be quickly removed but S3 should stay in there with my wife paying for it.

Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

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Post by marcelarie »

mickael-kerjean wrote: post #12

The solution I've used for the last 2-3 years: 1. a cronjob on my android phone (via termux) does an rsync to a VPS 2. the VPS has a cronjob to sync everything with S3 3. the frontoffice tool for people to access those photos is my open source Dropbox like frontend that is bring your own backend: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash My wife and I got an account and family members can access it through shared…

nice

Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

#18

Post by mcjiggerlog »

Use Google Photos on my android phone, then use gphotos-sync[0] to sync the files to a hard drive on my DIY NAS. Contents of hard drive are periodically backed up with restic[1] to B2[2].

My reasoning is that I don't trust Google to not lock me out of my account at some point, so having both a local and a remote backup gives me piece of mind. I periodically check the offsite backup to check that it's still all working. Total cost for about a terabyte of files (it's not only photos and videos) is about $6/month, which is pretty reasonable.

[0] https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync

[1] https://restic.net/

[2] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html

Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

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Post by Meleagris »

I have about 6Tb of photos and videos that are stored on an on-site TrueNas Server. This includes my raw files, lightroom library and edits.

TrueNas is configured to automatically backup to Backblaze B2 (which is off-site).

After editing, all the exported JPGs are stored on Google Photos and shared with family. I like Google photos because of the content search and face detection features.

So that's 1 on-site medium and 2 off-site mediums. I used to burn the photos to archival disks and place them in the bank, but it got tedious.

Edit: I use Backblaze because it's the cheapest. Most Photo storage providers don't have support for Raw files. (If anyone has a recommendation let me know).

Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

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Post by boppo1 »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #18

Use Google Photos on my android phone, then use gphotos-sync[0] to sync the files to a hard drive on my DIY NAS. Contents of hard drive are periodically backed up with restic[1] to B2[2]. My reasoning is that I don't trust Google to not lock me out of my account at some point, so having both a local and a remote backup gives me piece of mind. I periodically check the offsite backup to check that it's still all workin…

Awesome, I came in here hoping for a google photos downloader!
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