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Once we're close to filling up available storage, I turn on my local server which downloads it into its RAID disks (then I turn it off afterwards). I wipe my & my wife's onedrives and we repeat the process.
Once a year, usually around Christmas, we're sitting together and choosing photos that we want to print and put into family album.
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…
I did the same thing with a WD My Cloud (6 tb redundant RAID 1) man was that a terrible decision. One failed and then the other eventually did as well (within 3 years) - not to mention it was painfully slow and cost maybe 600 USD. I've since been able to recover them through another external drive casing but I haven't found a replacement idea on what to do.
so, requires a home nas, and two backup drives, and an offsite person,
I 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…
The problem I had is that the takeouts always failed with "some data could not be exported, please retry" no matter how many times I retried.
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.
Getting to the photos was horrible, so made an alias of the folder that contains the files (which is in the library bundle).
It’s all on a VM so it sort of out the way.
(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…
I don't mind looking for an alternative to Google Photos because, while their first 2 tiers are anything but absurdly priced (I currently pay C$40 a year for 200 GB), it abruptly jumps to 2 TB after that, and a price that's far less justifiable (C$140). But I see little if any point to offline-only backups of something like family photos. Usable and backed-up is what I'm after, and preferably not just usable but very…
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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…
> Sometimes boxes randomly go missing citation? and nothing ever goes wrong with cloud backup schemes, over a very long time period?
For posterity and "the test of time," I really think you need to create physical photo books. My wife and I have used Blurb for that. It's not cheap, and it's a lot of work, but I'm skeptical that our digital photos will outlive us for very long, for the reasons already mentioned. I've found that the greatest benefit of cloud storage is not as a backup, but as our primary place to keep and look at photos. We started…
So I am going through this process with my mother who is organizing photos. I asked her the intended audience and a lot of it is for posterities sake. My next questions were then how do you arrange a project for the intended audience (context and information is important as random photos of people 100 years from now won't have much value). And then how do you create it so the paper book lasts for 100 + years. Your id…
If you are making a book for your mom, pay for the higher quality options if offered, such as hardback with a dust cover over paperback, and the heavier paper if offered.
The U.S. Library of Congress recommends acid-free paper for archival storage (https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rt/perm/pp_x1.htm...) but AFAIK this option is not available for commercial photo books.
Periodically file/classify photos on NAS. Periodically make physical backup NAS to a remote site.
This approach is low cost and convenient.