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

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Post by spiantino »

dmje wrote: post #123

Synology NAS, using Synology Photos (installed on my phone + wife's phone for photo backups). The NAS is backed up nightly using Synology C2. I also have a local standalone disk. We also both use Google Photos - although not all photos on here and ideally I wouldn't use it, the utility is so strong it's hard to say no to it. I did used to use Mylio [1] which is a really lovely solution that uses a sort of internal P2…

I also use Synology, but with apple photos. There's a mac mini on my home network that syncs the photo library automatically, and then Synology Drive syncs the local folder to the Synology. That is in turn backed up to backblaze weekly

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

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Post by harryvederci »

This may sound sarcastic, but I'm serious:

- I hardly ever take pictures or shoot videos. Not owning a smartphone helps.

- I don't care at all about old family pictures, so if family members want to do something "for posterity", I hope they don't give me a giant pile of media and expect me to keep it.

Also, I feel like everyone's always creating content, not deleting it. Won't the result be an unmanageable pile of cat videos where you can't see the forest for the trees?

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

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Post by Brajeshwar »

travisporter wrote: post #88
b3lvedere wrote: post #64

We all have iPhones, so we use an app to automatically upload our pictures to the central nas. At the central nas a 24/7 sync runs to an external usb drive and other backup schematics to two other nas systems. Once in a while i copy (and encrypt) everything to another external usb drive. That usb drive then goes to another location.

Which app if you dont mind sharing?

Something like Photosync[1] does it and I had used it much easier during Flickr days. Unfortunately, in my recent tries, it keeps crashing on large libraries.

1. https://www.photosync-app.com

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

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Post by orev »

CommanderData wrote: post #87

Spent roughly 1k on a nas system at home which gives me 6tb of redundant storage. It's raid 0 (2x6tb) with 2 separate backups done nightly/weekly, one in the house and one done in the garage. The speed of access is unmatched to any cloud system, in the long run it'll be cheaper than online (assuming £10 per month for 6tb of storage). I made the plunge after trying a few cheaper options plus cloud. I'm happy with the…

RAID0? Assuming that’s not a typo, RAID0 could not be a worse choice for backups. You’re at least doubling your chances of losing all the data, when you typically want to have something more resilient than a single standard disk for backups.

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

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Post by UIUC_06 »

Valgrim wrote: post #150
UIUC_06 wrote: post #141

(Very) old school: you get a multi-TB disk of some sort, doesn't have to be fast or high quality. Back up the media to that disk, and then take it down to your safe deposit box. No absurd monthly fees, no Terms of Service, it's off-site so if your house burns down, you're covered. "Your what ?" Yeah, the banks still have those. Mine costs $15 a year. If you die, your next-of-kin will have to bring in a death certific…

Idle hard drives can still fail due to what's called "Stiction" (static friction), due to the breakdown of lubricants inside.

Yeah, as I said, "backup & forget it" is never a good strategy. Go in every year (or so) and replace it.

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

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Post by Aperocky »

bryanp2021 wrote: post #153
voisin wrote: post #131

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?

I wanted to use icloud. But I always got confused as there are different versions of the same media contents (on cloud, on the laptop, exported or non-exported? duplication between devices). And the cost. So I gave up. Unfortunately I still have to do manual export all media from i$$$ devices, move them to linux/android-based system. "move" really means that, because I never pay icloud again.

icloud is so weird for someone who are used to simple file and folder.

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

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Post by NetBeck »

UIUC_06 wrote: post #141

(Very) old school: you get a multi-TB disk of some sort, doesn't have to be fast or high quality. Back up the media to that disk, and then take it down to your safe deposit box. No absurd monthly fees, no Terms of Service, it's off-site so if your house burns down, you're covered. "Your what ?" Yeah, the banks still have those. Mine costs $15 a year. If you die, your next-of-kin will have to bring in a death certific…

The lease agreement on those boxes usually states the customer assuming all risk. Sometimes boxes randomly go missing, and natural disasters can make them inaccessible.

"She sued the bank in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking $7.3 million. Bank of America sought to have the case dismissed, citing language in its lease agreement stating that the renter “assumes all risks” of leaving property in the box."[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...

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

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Post by karlshea »

cedricd wrote: post #121

I'm surprised how technical and homegrown all these solutions are (well, it's an HN crowd so maybe I shouldn't be). I'm a techy too and pretty into photography, but I've gone the other way. I store all my photos on a desktop computer and use BackBlaze to automatically keep everything backed up. It violates the 3-2-1 rule but in the 10ish years I've been using this approach I've had tons of harddrive failures, had to…

I’m much the same but with an additional local backup: iCloud Photos (with one computer set to save all originals), Time Machine backups to a local NAS, plus BackBlaze for offsite.

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

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Post by SavantIdiot »

If you have terabytes of photos, be honest: no one is ever going to look at them. Pare them down to the good ones, get high-quality prints, and make a photo album. There's really no way to guarantee electrical devices will last without labor and cost. Although the idea of passing digital assets down as heirlooms has never existed before, so maybe there's an PaaS here that goes beyond Google photos.
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