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However I recently realized that if I wanted to get the images back out of Glacier it would be ridiculously expensive. I’m looking for another option, hopefully something that is cheap and reliable.
That partition is backed up daily to two separate external USB hard drives using rsync.
That gives three separate copies. One of those copies is also rsynced to a separate laptop, so a total of 4 copies.
I don't store archival stuff like videos, photos, music in my personal directories and scatter them all over the place. An archive is an archive and needs to be centralised and then distributed outwards from there.
Is there a good solution for posterity? For example, once I die
Unfortunately, you can't control posterity from beyond the grave. What you consider priceless is something that your descendants maybe can't wait to get rid of. I learned this lesson when my brother died. I started off trying to keep as much as possible of his stuff, but as I sorted through it I found that it was worthless to me so I ended up discarding about 95% of it. I saw that when I died, somebody else would do exactly the same thing with all of my carefully-hoarded information.
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How long have you been following this procedure?
30 years now in a more organized fashion, 40 years if you count disorganized. Some of my older drives are no longer recognized by the drivers anymore. I've had several drives completely fail, and one I dropped that never worked again. I've used CDROMS, DVD-Rs, zip drives, and even cartridge tape for a while, but the hard drives work the best. I still have the cartridge tapes, but no way to read them anymore. Same wit…
I store photos and video on a Synology NAS in my home and vault to Glacier once a week. However I recently realized that if I wanted to get the images back out of Glacier it would be ridiculously expensive. I’m looking for another option, hopefully something that is cheap and reliable.
My friend and I built https://pixaver.com . It doesn’t address all of the points you note here, but it does offer some piece of mind if we get locked out of Google Photos.
Do you have any plans to support backups of other Google content, e.g. gmail?
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Do you have any plans to support backups of other Google content, e.g. gmail?
We’ve thought about it, but I think it’ll be a while before we’re able to get to that. We also run two other products, and we’re just two people. So, we’re already spread a bit thin.
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30 years now in a more organized fashion, 40 years if you count disorganized. Some of my older drives are no longer recognized by the drivers anymore. I've had several drives completely fail, and one I dropped that never worked again. I've used CDROMS, DVD-Rs, zip drives, and even cartridge tape for a while, but the hard drives work the best. I still have the cartridge tapes, but no way to read them anymore. Same wit…
why not using AWS and Google deep archive storage? seems cheap enough. Keep the data at home, then use cloud deep archive storage as backup. No?
(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…
Not as many as used to.
I was at the branch inside the regional headquarters for one of those too-big-to-fail banks a couple of weeks ago adding my wife to an account, and I asked the guy if there was a way to transfer the contents of my safe deposit box at another one of the bank's regional headquarters to this one because it would be more convenient. He said that his bank (one of the five largest in America) doesn't open new safe deposit boxes anymore.
Still, if you can find one, they're invaluable. For reasons beyond the scope of this discussion, I'm glad I still have the one I have, even though it's a thousand miles away.
I wonder if the smaller banks are still doing them. Did credit unions ever have them?
(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…
First of all safe deposit box, despite impressive security measures shown in movies, aren't all that secure. Google "safe deposit box news" for extra details. Even ignoring the LA issue where the FBI seized a bunch of safe deposit boxes, seems like just loss is pretty common. Disks are not designed to be usable after 5-10 years of sitting on a shelf. Portable drives aren't particularly robust either, I've worked with…
The fact that it's news shows that it's rare, not common. The whole point of the news is to show things that don't happen every day.
I've never understood how people got to a state where they think "I saw it on the news, so it must happen all the time."