Syncthing to sync from my phone to my nas. And then a nightly crone to back it up with Borg to borgbase.com
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?
#32I simply burn the photos in 100GB M-disc blurays. Then I bury them next to a tree in a zip lock bag.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#33First, I'd recommend thinning out - multiple terabytes sounds very extensive and can be thinned by removing duplicates and by using better compression like webp or x265, removing unnecessary raw-files, etc. My personal backup is the usual 3-2-1: 3 backups, 2 places, 1 offline. I have one copy on my local harddrive (that I work with), one automatically synced copy via seafile on one of my dedicated servers (which also…
I have a similar setup, and have set up my backup infrastructure configuration as a git project, mirrored on both GitHub & Gitlab.
I can thus checkout the project on a new machine and just initiate it (giving it the right api keys etc) without issue.
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#34The 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…
But what if before that s3 or Amazon dies?
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#35As a long-term user of Synology NAS, I already have one central solution to store all photos and videos, a Diskstation 918+ with 10TB storage. The NAS has a "photos" folder, all important family members have accounts and can store all photos in that folder. It's organized by year and one folder for each event.
When I first set up that photo solution I feared that no one would like to use it, but everyone liked the idea to have one central storage for all photos where everyone can also see and download the photos of others.
To make sure this is not the only place where everything is stored, I have another, older NAS sitting at my mom's house that is used as a remote backup solution. If ever comes the situation that both my and my mom's NAS are destroyed, photos probably don't matter anymore, so that's totally fine for me.
Of course, two NAS with much storage is quite expensive, but I guess it's cheaper in the long term, than paying for a multi-TB cloud storage every year.
TLDR: two NAS at different locations, one has a shared folder where all family photos are stored, one is backup only.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#36First, I'd recommend thinning out - multiple terabytes sounds very extensive and can be thinned by removing duplicates and by using better compression like webp or x265, removing unnecessary raw-files, etc. My personal backup is the usual 3-2-1: 3 backups, 2 places, 1 offline. I have one copy on my local harddrive (that I work with), one automatically synced copy via seafile on one of my dedicated servers (which also…
> if you're fine with a burglar having the images and you cannot be ransomed with them (e.g. due to nudes), just write what is on the harddrive clearly and you're fine.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#37Also interested in this, but hijacking to ask what folks scanning solution is. My dad has tons of slides, and prints. He’s hesitant to send them off, but we have analysis paralysis on scanners etc.
Try DSLR scanning.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#38Next to the usual 3-2-1 backup cycle I also keep a downscaled (around 5 Megapixels) full backup on my phone (SD card). The originals have several terabytes. Should everything else fail - at least some will survive. Also it's nice to quickly browse the collection.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#39First, I'd recommend thinning out - multiple terabytes sounds very extensive and can be thinned by removing duplicates and by using better compression like webp or x265, removing unnecessary raw-files, etc. My personal backup is the usual 3-2-1: 3 backups, 2 places, 1 offline. I have one copy on my local harddrive (that I work with), one automatically synced copy via seafile on one of my dedicated servers (which also…
> if you're fine with a burglar having the images and you cannot be ransomed with them (e.g. due to nudes), just write what is on the harddrive clearly and you're fine. For the most part, just using an unusual filesystem e.g. ZFS will foil the vast, vast majority of attempts to read the data from a drive stolen from a home burglary (e.g. where the data was not the target).
That's security by obscurity - either do it right (if your data demands it) or don't put any effort in it at all, IMHO.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#40Use 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…
I'd love to use the Google photos API but it's really frustrating that Google won't include geolocation data.