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

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Post by Odenwaelder »

My data flow for phone photos is as follows:

1. capture photo with iPhone

2a. iPhone syncs with iCloud

2b. Now and then, open Dropbox App to upload newest photos to Dropbox

3. Synology NAS pulls photos from Dropbox

4. Synology backups photos to several backup locations using Hyper Backup.

For DSLR photos, I just upload the RAW files to the NAS and it also backups automatically.

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

#82

Post by ptoomey3 »

subpixel wrote: post #46
ptoomey3 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

Thanks, I may follow this to a 't'. One question: you mention 'your local home server' but it sounds like any Mac will do as long as the account is always logged in, no?

Yeah..totally. I only meant “server” in so far as some machine where you want the “source of truth” to be. I personally want my source of truth to be my home iMac since it has a big drive that gets real-time backed up to backblaze. So, for me, I view that iMac as my “server”. In truth it can be any machine you are willing to leave an account logged into.

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

#83

Post by ptoomey3 »

subpixel wrote: post #46
ptoomey3 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

Thanks, I may follow this to a 't'. One question: you mention 'your local home server' but it sounds like any Mac will do as long as the account is always logged in, no?

If you want them, let me know and I can drop my hazel rules somewhere. They aren’t wildly complex, but it can be slightly confusing if you’ve never used hazel before. Once you see the rules it‘s super obvious what’s going on.

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

#84

Post by gesman »

Crashplan $10/mo. Encrypted, off-site backup with unlimited storage, versioning and it keeps deleted files as well.

My challenge is that I shoot uncompressed RAW with my Sony A7R3 which makes it 80MB/image. And I shoot high res close to gigapixel res. panoramas with bracketing - which triples the storage (3 shots per frame for HDR blending).

So the challenge is it takes very long time to upload this stuff across my bandwidth.

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

#85

Post by rdiddly »

gotodengo wrote: post #79
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…

When answering how and where to store X, the answer should always consider "have less X" as an option or meta-solution, because it makes simpler, cheaper solutions possible and obviates overblown ones. I don't need to assume anything about the person; it's universally applicable. It obeys a power law too. Half the junk somehow gets you down to a quarter of the hassle most of the time.

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

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Post by em-bee »

gotodengo wrote: post #79
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…

backing up SD cards gets me too. sometimes it's months between backups. usually before travelling i remember that i'd better get the old pictures off, in case i loose the camera or run out of space.

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

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Post by em-bee »

rdiddly wrote: post #85
gotodengo wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

When answering how and where to store X, the answer should always consider "have less X" as an option or meta-solution, because it makes simpler, cheaper solutions possible and obviates overblown ones. I don't need to assume anything about the person; it's universally applicable. It obeys a power law too. Half the junk somehow gets you down to a quarter of the hassle most of the time.

for me it comes down to what is less effort to implement. i could probably delete half of my data (got about 5TB now), but doing that would take more effort than buying new harddisks.

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

#88

Post by toomuchtodo »

ptoomey3 wrote: post #44
larrysalibra wrote: post #5

I use iCloud Photo Library which solves most of your problems except client side encryption - which I agree is a big negative in its corner. It works very well if you're all in in the Apple ecosystem. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264

While I voted for google photos in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18770681 , I will say that apple photos is nice if you have zero need to share a library with family members. For better or worse, apple Unlike third-party uploaders, Apple photos can “cheat” and upload no matter what. That by itself makes it the most reliable for Apple ecosystem folks. That said, I’ve not had any issues in recent history with th…

When you share more than 2-3 photos at once with others who have iPhones, they get an icloud link where they can not only view the photos, but one-click add them to their own photo library. Have had zero problems keeping my library consistent with my partner's, or sharing lots of family photos at once with other close family who have iPhones.

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

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Post by subpixel »

ptoomey3 wrote: post #83
subpixel wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, I may follow this to a 't'. One question: you mention 'your local home server' but it sounds like any Mac will do as long as the account is always logged in, no?

If you want them, let me know and I can drop my hazel rules somewhere. They aren’t wildly complex, but it can be slightly confusing if you’ve never used hazel before. Once you see the rules it‘s super obvious what’s going on.

yes please! maybe a gist?
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