I use iCloud, and would pay for a solution that allows me to automatically archive on a monthly basis to Amazon Glacier. Anyone know of such a solution?
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?
#132I make a photo book once a year with the best photos from the year. I use Amazon photos, google photos, etc but the hard copy book is the only one I’d expect to still be around in 100 years.
For an offsite backup, I should start printing 2 and storing one copy at a relative’s house…
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#133I use iCloud, and would pay for a solution that allows me to automatically archive on a monthly basis to Amazon Glacier. Anyone know of such a solution?
I researched this a little yesterday. I am using a Synology NAS and their Photos App allows to easily sync new pictures. It also allows syncing to cloud storage like B2 or glacier.
I don’t want to download the old photos that are just on iCloud to my device, but there seems to be this python script which I will try to use tonight: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do.... I assume that you could combine this script easily in a cron job with RClone which is rsync for the cloud: https://rclone.org/
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#134I use Google Photos and once a year I do a Google takeout to a hard drive and put that drive somewhere safe.
I tweeted about this a while back and several people had good replies: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1445408384472211464
For context, this was after facebook was down for a day. I think the odds of Google deleting all my photos is pretty low, but the odds of me losing access to my Google account for legitimate or non-legitimate reasons is much higher.
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#135Managed Nextcloud at Hetzner for 6 EUR/month with 500G.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#136I make a photo book once a year with the best photos from the year. I use Amazon photos, google photos, etc but the hard copy book is the only one I’d expect to still be around in 100 years. For an offsite backup, I should start printing 2 and storing one copy at a relative’s house…
I would send the second copy to a relative in another country. Wars and Natural disasters happen and if the relative is not far from you, most likely both copies will be gone.
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#137I have my photos on my personal computer and some of them on my external hdd. I manage and edit them with lightroom.
I backup everything from time to time on two external hdds with rustic.
I export albums to google photos and personal (mine and my gf) stuff on onedrive. But it's only exports - lower resolution and after-edit jpgs.
[edit] only time I lost some image was because I have waited too long to copy it from my camera to the computer :)
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#138I have about 1 TB of family photos and videos.
Copy 1: Desktop Computer
Copy 2: Backup 8 TB USB Hard Disk, always online
Copy 3: Backup 1 TB USB Hard Disk #1, always unplugged, rotated with #2
Copy 4: Backup 1 TB USB Hard Disk #2, always unplugged, rotated with #1
Copy 5: Microsoft Onedrive (Pay for 1.2 TB Storage)
Copy 6: Amazon Photos (unlimited photo storage for free with Prime)
Main purpose of the unplugged offline storage is in case of ransomware attack which could conceivably wipe out my online and cloud backups.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#139Related question, how does everyone get the family photos grouped together in the first place? My family are all taking photos on their own devices during a vacation, holiday, gathering, etc. and then someone creates a shared Album on Photos (iOS) where everyone just dumps all the photos taken. It's a complete mess in my opinion. WE have a shared album "Christmas 2018", "Holidays 2019", "Xmas'20", etc. depending on w…
Google Photos has been a lifesaver. Photos my wife takes are automatically shared between us.
If we have pics from someone else, I usually create an album and ask them to upload their pictures there. Not everyone does it - some people just share over SMS and then it's likely those pictures will get lost.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#140I use a NAS, raspberry pi, and s3 with the following workflow:
Photos are imported from SD card using a script. This script creates a new directory, captures some metadata, copies the photos in and creates thumbnails. This directory is rsynced to the NAS then encrypted, compressed and sent to s3. Nightly, from another location a raspberry pi with a large encrypted disk rsyncs the entire NAS.
All viewing and editing of photos is done against the NAS, and any changes are picked up nightly by the pis. The s3 copy acts as an immutable original.