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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 have no prior experience of such stuff and managed it (off to a Synology and from there to Backblaze).
Getting stuff out of iCloud in an automated and regular basis is surprisingly hard.
Mac with a 2TB internal drive backed up to an external on Time Machine, whole thing synced to iCloud.
(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 have like 10 photos that are special to me physically printed out. People are such hoarders when it comes to family photos and videos. You are never going to look at 99% of those photos and videos.
Wait until you have kids...
We do look at them ever so often, and it’s great.
It’s also disturbing to see corruption in some of the first videos we took. I don’t know the source but some videos have weird artefacts now.
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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?
Take photos (on phone) ... automatically sync (using Resilio Sync) to a NAS I have at home. Periodically file/classify photos on NAS. Periodically make physical backup NAS to a remote site. This approach is low cost and convenient.
> is there any way to guarantee these heirlooms remain intact and available Are they actually heirlooms? If the goal is to keep these safe so generations can continue to not look at them, what's the point? If you haven't looked at something in years, odds are nobody wants to look at them.
The actual object is less important than the exercise and the discussion. Substitute "photo albums" for "medical records", "civil certificates", "passwords + 2FA codes for all DeFi wallets" if you want.
The OP is talking about generational foolproof storage for photos which is both totally different and a slightly more convenient version of saddling your heirs with a closet full of photo albums and slide carousels.
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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…
Is this still true now that Google One is a thing?
I’m looking to improve, simplify, and more efficient but here is my present setup for our family (no extended family yet). We use Apple Photos as the primary, of which I export a backup once a while (at-least yearly for sure). Because Apple has’t solved what everyone ask — a way for two or more users to merge Photos, I use Dropbox[1] on the other devices (wife, daughters) to collect into “Camera Uploads”. I split the…