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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?

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Post by reacharavindh »

tlb wrote: post #5
reacharavindh wrote: post #4

It may be a good product idea to build a box PC with redundant hard drives and ZFS set up in paranoia mode to scrub every so often in order to refresh the data it guards, and configure it with safe defaults such that it works as a vault(not having provisions to run Docker etc.). Want to access photos, hook it up with an ethernet cable and access it like this... Once done, leave it in the closet with power supply. I w…

Don’t overlook the probability of a fire or burglary or flood causing the loss of everything in the closet. RAID and file system redundancy won’t help in that case. You need multi-site backup anyway, and then file system failures are also covered.

True. Perhaps it should be able to back itself up to something like AWS Glacier or Backblaze B2 such that the data can be retrieved by the owners if they have the encryption key somewhere.

Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

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Post by csw-001 »

jasonpeacock wrote: post #77

In addition what everyone else has mentioned, my plan (yet to be implemented) is to slowly organize the photos into albums, e.g. "Family vacation to Hawaii, 1995". For pics that don't fit neatly into an album theme I'll group them by date, "Family pics 1995-1996" based on their quantity. Then I'll print photobooks, adding info where possible about location, date, and people. Basically, recreating physical photo album…

We do something very similar. And we always print at least 3 copies and gift extras to family or friends that took the trip with us, or might like the book. It’s a nice gesture, but it also serves as insurance that if anything happens to our house we have the photo books spread out all over the place.

Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

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Post by blunte »

yashg wrote: post #83

OneDrive + 2 offline copies in two separate disks. Organization is in folders. Intend to keep one disk at a different location. But right now everything is at one place.

I gave up two different periods when I tried to do anything involving a lot of data with OneDrive.

Inevitably the app would fail to sync or would forever get stuck syncing and become useless.

What number of files and total volume stored do you have, if I may ask?

In my case it was 50k files and 500ish GB.

Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

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Post by CommanderData »

Spent roughly 1k on a nas system at home which gives me 6tb of redundant storage.

It's raid 0 (2x6tb) with 2 separate backups done nightly/weekly, one in the house and one done in the garage.

The speed of access is unmatched to any cloud system, in the long run it'll be cheaper than online (assuming £10 per month for 6tb of storage).

I made the plunge after trying a few cheaper options plus cloud. I'm happy with the investment and haven't looked back, it's been rock solid. Synology.

The same system could probably be had for less now, the nas box also acts as my docker server which has been running without issues for 2 years. Most importantly it's not a full time job maintaining it, I spend maybe an hr a month if that checking up on it.

Comes with duplication detection and everything you'd need without learning shell can be done using the nice gui. It's just nice having a system anyone can use, no shell scripts in place at all. It just works.

Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

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Post by travisporter »

b3lvedere wrote: post #64

We all have iPhones, so we use an app to automatically upload our pictures to the central nas. At the central nas a 24/7 sync runs to an external usb drive and other backup schematics to two other nas systems. Once in a while i copy (and encrypt) everything to another external usb drive. That usb drive then goes to another location.

Which app if you dont mind sharing?

Re: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

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Post by rglullis »

parasec wrote: post #23

First, 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…

> better compression like webp or x265, removing unnecessary raw-files, etc.

OP is talking about digitized videos, so asking to re-compress the videos is a https://xkcd.com/1683/ in the making.

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