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Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?

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Post by MehdiHK »

alex_duf wrote: post #17

I use a Synology NAS. They've got that decent photo library app called Moments, which is available on mobile devices to upload your pictures from your phone directly. They also have another app called Drive, on mobile and desktop to upload photos and files. It's basically a closed source Google drive. The NAS itself can very easily be plugged to Amazon S3 for encrypted incremental backup (I do a weekly backups).

I use a Synology NAS too. It's already 5 year old but working fine, still getting updates regularly.

The Hyper Backup is a wonderful tool (comes with Synology) that you can use to create multiple backup strategy, to another portable hdd, various cloud providers, any host with rsync etc, with or without backup version and rotation. The user experience is pretty neat.

Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?

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Post by BeetleB »

ahnick wrote: post #42
andrewstuart2 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might want to look into duplicity [1] for client-side encryption and as a general incremental backup solution. I've been using it for a while, and had to restore a couple times, and it's both pretty intuitive and works as expected. It's essentially just a wrapper on GnuPG and rsync/tar with a bunch of storage backends. [1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

If you like duplicity you might prefer duplicacy [1]. I've found it's incremental backup solution to be far superior. The only negative might be the licensing, but with the free version you have access to all the code for non-commercial use and that suits my personal needs just fine. [1] https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy

And if you do stick to duplicity but are sick of the interface, consider duply - a wrapper around duplicity.

https://duply.net/

Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?

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Post by patemotter »

sfuller wrote: post #54

Many people forget that their Amazon prime subscription includes unlimited* free photo storage (terms of use apply) I love it and it keeps getting better with each new app release. Worth checking out as an option.

This is my current setup as well. No real complaints so far.

Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?

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Post by ljsocal »

In theory, iCloud is a really good solution. It is glitchy and sometimes slow to sync and the Photos app is very poorly integrated for use with other apps on the Mac (works much better in iOS). I have my entire 35,000+ library in iCloud with the original full-sized files uploaded and with optimized -for-size complete libraries on my Mac and iPhone. The 150GB library and my extensive hierarchical folder and album structure take up only 7GB on my phone. It's a neat system and will be great if/when they work out the many little annoyances and errors.

Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?

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Post by 8bitsrule »

Thirteen years ago, I ripped all my CDs to mp3 onto a new HD. Allowing me to eliminate a cubic yard of jewel-boxes. The HD was later copied to another, then stowed in a carboard box (kept indoors).

Twelve years later, I put the drive into a USB enclosure and copied the contents. The startup and copy went without a hitch, and so far no (audible) decay.

That might work for a large pictures collection. Certainly more trustworthy than existing physical media. (Although CDs I cut in that era are -mostly- still readable.

Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?

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Post by rdiddly »

I guess you probably don't want to hear "Take fewer photos, keep them on a HDD with a USB backup, and always be too busy doing awesome shit to look back at them?" That's far too ridiculous to be good advice. My entire life so far fits in 30GB of photos & videos. I rarely look at them. Life's too short. Everybody holding up a phone for the entire duration of the concert I'm trying to actually watch would probably beg to differ. Although then again I bet they do agree with me on one thing: they're never going to watch those videos either.

Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?

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Post by gotodengo »

rdiddly wrote: post #77

I guess you probably don't want to hear "Take fewer photos, keep them on a HDD with a USB backup, and always be too busy doing awesome shit to look back at them?" That's far too ridiculous to be good advice. My entire life so far fits in 30GB of photos & videos. I rarely look at them. Life's too short. Everybody holding up a phone for the entire duration of the concert I'm trying to actually watch would probably beg…

Sorry, but you're making a lot of assumptions as to why this person, or anyone would have a large amount of video or photos.

They could be the guy taking photos of their kid's ball game, that parent's know they can reach out to for pictures of their own kid's goals as well. They might have to record regular meetings at a work or club for posterity/legal sake. Based on what they posted it possible they're a pro photog/videographer who is just looking for a better system than what they're using currently.

Take less video isn't applicable to the question at all.

As for my experience I do agree with the keep them on an HDD part though. Nothing beats raw storage capacity for me, and multi-terabyte drives are only getting cheaper. I've got one set for bulk items, and another for backups of anything worth keeping.

The only annoying part for me is remembering to get data off a group of SD cards and onto the harddrives in a timely manner.

Re: Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?

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Post by Findeton »

donclark wrote: post #70
Findeton wrote: post #60

I use https://lyfepedia.com , which I am developing.

Cant tell if this is supposed to be a social media site or what. No examples, no nothing. Why would anyone sign up without getting a detailed explanation?

Thanks, it's just in "unreleased mode" yet. The idea is to merge all social networks (flickr, whatsapp, youtube, google photos...) in a single one, with granular privacy controls. Right now you can only upload pictures (it will save the originals too) and create private chat channels though.
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