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Re: Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?

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Post by KAMSPioneer » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 3:48 PM UTC

yamtaddle wrote: post #21

SoftTalker wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah and I think people overestimate how much interest their kids will have in old photos of their ancestors. I cleaned out boxes of photos from my late parents house. Lots of pics from my childhood years, somewhat sparser selection of older photos. Never look at any of them. I have a framed photo of my parents on a shelf; that's enough. I also basically stopped taking photos of stuff about 15 years ago when I realiz…

Pro tip to parents out there: Your kids will want to see other people in those childhood photos, more than they'll want to see 100,000 photos of their own faces. You, when you were younger; their now-gone grandparents; that friend they had for two grades before one of them moved ("OMG I totally forgot about them!"), that kind of thing. You'll get way more than enough photos of your kids, so far as your kids themselve…

Counterpoint, your grandchildren will appreciate pictures of their parents as kids.

Re: Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?

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Post by scarface74 » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 3:51 PM UTC

vorpalhex wrote: post #29

Homelab with ZFS and ~60tb racked. It backs up to a second box in the house. I occasionally swap drives with a nearby friend. Homelab runs photoprism (open source google photos alternative), plex, code-server, etc.

And what happens if your house catches fire?

Re: Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?

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Post by scarface74 » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 3:53 PM UTC

rektide wrote: post #20

Im surprised more clouds dont let folks put credit into their accounts. I used a smallish openstsck based provider LunaNode for a little while that had a "wallet" one had to pre-pay into... conceivably one could just pay-in-advance the estimated rate for the next couple hundred year. You'd have to find a provider you trust to stay around. We can iterate from there. Wouldnt it be sweet to be able to let other people d…

And what happens when LunaNode goes out of business or gets acquired and the CEO posts an “Our Amazing Journey” letter on their website?

Re: Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?

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Post by blitzar » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 3:56 PM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #32

vorpalhex wrote: post #29

Homelab with ZFS and ~60tb racked. It backs up to a second box in the house. I occasionally swap drives with a nearby friend. Homelab runs photoprism (open source google photos alternative), plex, code-server, etc.

And what happens if your house catches fire?

> I occasionally swap drives with a nearby friend

Re: Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?

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Post by pak9rabid » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 4:00 PM UTC

I have a RAID5 over a set of 3 internal SATA drives, then an external enclosure with 5 drives (RAID5) for backup connected to the same machine via eSATA, where an rsync job kicks off every night to sync between primary/backup volumes. No off-site backup, though, which I know is a single point of failure which I hope to remedy at some point.

Re: Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?

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Post by bick_nyers » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 4:01 PM UTC

NoboruWataya wrote: post #30

On this topic, does anyone have recommendations for good and relatively affordable home NAS hardware? A lot of the ones you can buy with all the bells and whistles included are quite expensive and the cheaper ones out there look kind of shoddy. I bought a little kit for turning a Raspberry Pi into a NAS device using a SATA hat but the connection seems dodgy or something as it doesn't recognise the hard drives persist…

You can check out the data hoarder subreddit, which often has good suggestions.

My current setup is Ryzen on an AsRock motherboard (let's me use Unbuffered ECC RAM), and you use LSI HBA cards (see art of server on EBAY) which gives you more SATA ports.

Still in the range of $500-$1000 (no HDD) depending on how you spec it out, but far more powerful and expandable for anything even close to that price range.

If you are going for something in the $200-300 range, you can likely take the same path, but will make compromises in e.g. motherboard choice that won't scale well over time (but can still do a basic 32TB file server with ease).

Re: Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?

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Post by sriku » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 4:03 PM UTC

I've been trying a different way of recording for several years now. Have no way of knowing whether it will be better or worse than photos, but ... Honestly don't care because it is fun for me.

When some interesting thing happens with the kids, I shoot an email to their accounts in which I write the conversation, the way I felt, how we admired what they did, what we learnt from them and such things.

Re: Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?

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Post by wahnfrieden » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 4:04 PM UTC

Ardrive is interesting in this space: distributed storage with the promise of one-time payment sufficient to cover storage cost permanently. Every other solution I’ve seen requires ongoing rent, or ongoing stakeholder interest+capability for preservation without financial incentive

Re: Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?

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Post by nemo1618 » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 4:05 PM UTC

yamtaddle wrote: post #21

SoftTalker wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah and I think people overestimate how much interest their kids will have in old photos of their ancestors. I cleaned out boxes of photos from my late parents house. Lots of pics from my childhood years, somewhat sparser selection of older photos. Never look at any of them. I have a framed photo of my parents on a shelf; that's enough. I also basically stopped taking photos of stuff about 15 years ago when I realiz…

Pro tip to parents out there: Your kids will want to see other people in those childhood photos, more than they'll want to see 100,000 photos of their own faces. You, when you were younger; their now-gone grandparents; that friend they had for two grades before one of them moved ("OMG I totally forgot about them!"), that kind of thing. You'll get way more than enough photos of your kids, so far as your kids themselve…

Another (much more obvious) tip: pictures with people in them are almost always more interesting than pictures of nature/buildings/objects/etc.

Re: Ask HN: How do you plan to archive all your digital content?

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Post by maerF0x0 » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 4:05 PM UTC

I was sad to learn that many of my IG stories (and presumably applies to reels too) have broken music links (even though the item is still in the library) . That means I cannot rely on IG to adequately safeguard my memories.