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When I have some free time I'm going to set up the pi to run the sync via cron so that when I copy files via my MacBook over to the NAS, I can close it and let the pi do the syncing when I am out of the house.
0. I may empathize BUT if you value data on them... Well you ask something like how I can have my wife drunk and my barrel full (ancient Italian proverb). Sometimes you can "optimize" your storage for instance lowering a bit quality of images that you may do not need at super-high resolution, stripping metatada, change formats, ... Depending on the case you may save big size of storage.
1. Why not having a more flexible backup then? RClone is a nice tool if you need to use someone else computer and you may use various vendors, also rsync+something you can mount as a local filesystem may also enlarge market offers list...
2. No proprietary tool can be consider trustworthy, no service will take care of your stuff better then yourself...
To answer more directly: I do not feel the need of buy someone else resources for storage, however consider a thing: local backups may not be super reliable, may be stolen, lost etc. however if you properly store and use these kind of event are not much more likely to happen than a "disaster in the cloud" especially from cheap services that in turn themselves re-sell someone else resources. IOW my own personal suggestion is assembly/buy a decent PC, with enough PCIe ports to support many sata port, fill it with reasonably big plate disks at the best price/Gb ratio you are able to find, install a GNU/Linux distro you prefer or pay someone to do so for you, I suggest using NixOS because being declarative if something goes wrong recovery will be quicker. Create a proper raid structure and use that as a personal cloud.
File transfer from various device may vary depending on the source device, from Syncthing to rsync+webdav you may have many options. It's automation again highly depend on "sources"...
To serve your content GNU MediaGoblin may be interesting, simply locally mount your server storage via nfs and use any local tool you want may also be an option.
I have my photos and videos on a ZFS personal NAS at home, backed up independently to two external hard drives(secondary backup). The plan was to use recline to backup the ZFS NAS to Backblaze B2, but that bit is not setup yet. I have also been eyeing a project called photoprism to serve as a front end for my media, and perhaps Filebrowser as well as a secondary interface to view them as "files". https://github.com/p…
I have a terabyte of photos and videos. I use git annex (without the assistant) to store and manage them. I push a copy to my desktop computer at work and to the NAS at home.
I'm not much of a believer in using the cloud for archival and backups. Hard drive space is much cheaper than the cloud, even with lots of redundancy.
I just purchased a cheap external drive which I'm going to use for offline backups in the fire safe.
I also have a friend who is willing to set up a backup-swap with me, but I need to sneaker-net the first backup to him.
Git annex will push to the cloud as well, I don't use that because I don't want to pay for the storage space.
For the photos on my phone I'm using resilio sync plus a cron job to copy them off and then free up space on the phone.
For organizing them I use a react/rails web app that I've been developing on and off for a few years. It's similar to google photos (without the AI). It's at https://github.com/jewel/hypercheese.
Google Photos has been my goto for a while now. The search feature is great and I use it frequently. For example, I was recently looking for a blue screen error code I'd taken a picture of months ago, and was able to find it within seconds by searching "monitor". It's really incredibly good, I'd say whatever model is on the backend is probably close to state-of-the-art. I recently hit the free limit, but for ~$3 a mo…
This! I’ve tried every option under the sun at least twice and google photos wins. My current system has been this for the past 2 years or so: 1. Create a family gmail account (ex. house-yourlastname@gmail.com) 2. Install Google Photos on the both you and your spouse’s phone and set the automatic photo upload to upload to the house-yourlastname@gmail.com account. 3. Create a new account on your local home server (ex.…
Switched to using google photos as primary backup mechanism. Working great so far. I also like their search feature, auto-create and reminder of previous year photos.
I use sftp+lftp [1] (faster and more secure than rsync) to transfer them to one of my backup servers. That server uses rsnapshot to keep diffs and also backs up to multiple external USB drives. The same method of sftp+lftp can be used to back files up off-site. Sftp can't touch the snapshots which protects against malicious access (cryptolockers and such) [1] - https://tinyvpn.org/sftp/#lftp
Also in term of "safety" (or encryption) many kind of performance depend on how you encrypt your data, and how you compress your transfer because they are pretty CPU-intesinve things...
My photos are mostly in archival boxes with ring binders, and portfolios. I admit that that is probably not the answer you were hoping for.
So if your house burn you loose all your pictures...
Also it have a nice plus: being physical need a bit of attention on your parts, so you probably end up in conserving only really valuable stuff instead a monster-collection of thing you do not really value...
How much space?
Consider:
1. That you're becoming a hoarder. Don't aim to keep all photos forever. Spend time to go over them and delete pointless ones. If you have 3-5 photos of the same object from the same angle "just in case", delete all but one.
2. HD space is cheap. Just upgrade. Don't use SSD for photos - get a regular 7200rpm HD. It's the simplest solution compared to trying to find a cloud provider that won't delete your photos. In the Internet age, you should never assume your online service will exist for long (paid or otherwise).
I have 170 GB of photos. Probably a third or so are simply because I have not yet had the time to go and prune them. I have a backup HD, and a cloud service. It should be all you need.