To save the environment in terms of redundant storage, I just upload them directly to the NSA cloud service. The free tier plan is pretty good.
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?
#42Well, I don't store photos or movies, but there is some audio data and total system backups. I'm currently using Cloudberry + Wasabi and pay about $10/month for 1.7TB data on a European server. There is no good way around paying if you want some cloud storage to protect against fire damage, etc. You could ask friends to host servers for you in exchange for you offering disk space for them, but this is very fragile and incurs too much administrative burdens in the long run.
If I were you, I'd delete 90% or more of those photos and videos to save running costs. I don't know how enthusiastic you are about watching photos of yourself when you were shitting your pants as a toddler, but, speaking for myself, I'd consider being urged to watch even a small fraction of what you have at family reunions some form of torture....
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#43While it won't yet solve all your backup needs (still early days), a few friends and I have been working on a privacy focused competitor of sorts for Google Photos, but a bit easier to share your albums with friends and family. It is free for the time being, but it will be a paid solution as you're not paying with your data. It's also E2E encrypted. While all photos are currently hosted by us, we're also exploring letting you to connect the app to your own cloud or storage solution for those that want full control. If you're interested it's called StoryArk https://storyark.eu/
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#44Photos on Mac iCloud and borg to rsync.net
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#45> What is your system for backing up family photos and videos to stand the test of time? In addition to the other good answers, a box full a printed photos will stand the test of time.
professionally printed ones, yes. However, finding a good print service has become a real hassle and most photos that I printed start to fade after 10ish years.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#46I have about a years worth synced across my devices via syncthing and everything older than I move to an external drive(s) and AWS glacier. I have a little script that does it and only have to do it once or twice a year.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#471. Encrypted external USB drive as a live copy
2. Encrypted external offline USB drive onsite
3. Encrypted external offline USB drive offsite
4. Upload of an encrypted archive to the cloud storage
It's all manual so sometimes some backups are months old. Haven't lost a single digital photo for almost 15 years now, and have gigabytes of obsolete photos...
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#48It doesn't completely fit your use-case but smugmug is pretty cheap for photos and lots of storage. You also get smartphone sync for free.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#49Use 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…
Doesn't Google reduce the quality of them all when they're uploaded? Not that it's really material in most use cases but I find myself having to do manual backups from my phone.
Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
#50As 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 id…
Use Synology with its built in AWS glacier backup.
Use the Synology Photos app on ios to automatically backup media from my phone.