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Digikam is the bees knees in digital asset management. I manage my personal photo archive with that, and it punches way above its weight.
Except for it's horrible face recognition right?.. ugh.
I love my Synology NAS. It handles photos great: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/photos
It does fit some workflows very well though, you just have to assess if your needs over the next few years fit their business intentions.
This may be user error? It's possible the photos are still there, or if they are gone, perhaps Amazon can restore.
OP, did you try to call / contact Amazon before you posted this?
Does anyone know if iCloud (photos) storage is AWS S3? Curious if using both iCloud & Amazon Photos is a decent redundant backup plan in addition to a local copy. Or if I have iCloud & Prime, why not? (I also use Backblaze.)
I agree with all the points about having backups and/or using better service/self host etc., but IMO it's too early to conclude anything about this incident.
Does anyone know if iCloud (photos) storage is AWS S3? Curious if using both iCloud & Amazon Photos is a decent redundant backup plan in addition to a local copy. Or if I have iCloud & Prime, why not? (I also use Backblaze.)
Pop goes the photo cache, all my family photos mysteriously vanish into the depths of Amazon Photos
Is that your only backup? Because precious photos need more than one (like any backup regime really) Still it sucks and it shouldn’t happen, hopefully it’s just a reporting error in the app.
- Synology NAS is accessible on LAN & phones sync photos when at home
- Nightly rsync from internal NAS storage to 1 external (non-raid) hard drive
The nightly rsync does not delete files, so the external hard drive is pretty close to an off-site backup even though it's still attached. The only better thing I've thought of doing is mounting it ro after backups + re-mounting before backups.
At the end of the day we get 3 copies of data: the photo on your phone, the photo on the shared NAS, and the photo on an external hard drive that spends 99% of its life spun down.
It literally only has been 1 hour since OP posted that thread. I agree with all the points about having backups and/or using better service/self host etc., but IMO it's too early to conclude anything about this incident.