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Seeing the OPs question, I'd might add another feature which I feel is tricky. Backup of data is pretty simple (I guess most HN user could easily make an simple upload/backup app for photos quite easily). - But what about searching... That moment when you're looking for a specific moment or latest photos of your dog? or pool to find a specific pool. - Dupe detection. Those unique features that for example, Dropbox is…
- Local copy on desktop
- Google Photos (with upgraded storage) for "everyday" use (sharing albums with family, viewing on phone, etc).
- The "proper" backup is done with Kopia to B2 and Wasabi. I don't have a large amount of photos, so B2 is really cheap and its just a redundancy for Google Photos and Wasabi.
Seeing the OPs question, I'd might add another feature which I feel is tricky. Backup of data is pretty simple (I guess most HN user could easily make an simple upload/backup app for photos quite easily). - But what about searching... That moment when you're looking for a specific moment or latest photos of your dog? or pool to find a specific pool. - Dupe detection. Those unique features that for example, Dropbox is…
I put photos and videos in separate folders, and then subfolder for year, subfolder for month. Within the per-month folders I rename those photos / videos from their defaults to something that describes their content, eg:
"Daughter cracking the shits in egg and spoon race"
Or
"Daughter getting chased by duck".
The ones we want to re-live.
This takes long time reviewing each and every photo and video though. I'm only up to 2014...
The chance of all of these versions becoming unavailable is low enough for me not to worry. If I end up under a tree some day nothing changes in the short term, the data will be available to those who have not yet met their tree. In the longer term I'd expect someone to either pick up where I left off or move the data to some storage which befits their level of expertise and needs. I don't want to force them into any contract with any provider, nor can I decide what they deem to be worth keeping.
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.
If I were being properly rigorous I'd be burning three copies and putting two of them in different physical places.
Printing out the occasional photo book of our favorites is also a part of the strategy - if our grandkids want to see photos of our lives after we're dead, they won't need to worry about lapsed hosting bills or ancient storage technology. They can just look at the book.
Obligatory reference to my rant about data preservation:
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.
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.
But when my folks passed away, my sibs and I very much enjoyed the old photos and movies, with people that had not been around for decades sometimes.
The 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?