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Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by ghaff »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #195
ghaff wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

However great you think your backup strategy is, it probably doesn't seem so great when you lose your primary.

I had a pretty big incident mid last year, which will turn into a dramatic blog post eventually. I didn't lose anything I've yet noticed. Very happy with how well the backup strategy held up, although potentially quite lucky the second on-site backup was unaffected. Didn't have to dip into the complexities of the off-site chaos (which reminds me...).

One of the nice things about having an off-site backup is that, in addition to being offsite, it's presumably a completely different backup process so if the local backup wasn't working for some reason (and you didn't notice) you're probably still covered.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by akho »

unxdfa wrote: post #102
prmoustache wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

who would rely on only one vendor and repo for his data?

Smells like everyone in github I got told I was insane for backing up github. I clone all our github repos daily, zip them up and stuff them in S3

How do you back up issues/pr discussions?

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by mikewarot »

vocatan wrote: post #27

Just to add context - I do have backups, but they're spread across a myriad of different hard drives. I had used Amazon Photos to consolidate, and benefit from the facial recognition to be able to quickly locate pictures of family members quickly. I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up. Thanks for the comments!

Digikam is less crashy than it used to be. Its slowly going through my 650,000+ photos and finding faces. I started this past Sunday. I expect to be done in a week or two.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by raffraffraff »

mikewarot wrote: post #213
vocatan wrote: post #27

Just to add context - I do have backups, but they're spread across a myriad of different hard drives. I had used Amazon Photos to consolidate, and benefit from the facial recognition to be able to quickly locate pictures of family members quickly. I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up. Thanks for the comments!

Digikam is less crashy than it used to be. Its slowly going through my 650,000+ photos and finding faces. I started this past Sunday. I expect to be done in a week or two.

Finding faces or identifying faces? Because I tried the latter and it was horrendously bad.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by raffraffraff »

capableweb wrote: post #31
vocatan wrote: post #27

Just to add context - I do have backups, but they're spread across a myriad of different hard drives. I had used Amazon Photos to consolidate, and benefit from the facial recognition to be able to quickly locate pictures of family members quickly. I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up. Thanks for the comments!

> I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up. I'm also looking for something FOSS that can do basic face recognition + maybe even more, but last time I checked DigiKam's detection didn't work so well, or maybe I got spoiled by the detection in Google Photos. If you do give it a go, would be nice if you reported back on your experience :)

There's a difference between face detection and face recognition. Last I checked (less than a year ago) it could find faces, but was abysmal at recognizing them. I spend a few days on it, tweaking this and that, taking to the devs. It was crap.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by vorpalhex »

justin_oaks wrote: post #199
tyingq wrote: post #185

This space is frustrating with any of the cloud vendors as they originally offered a lot of storage for free, then had to resort to various strategies to claw that back after it got expensive. Google is especially frustrating for me. By default, an Android tries to sync all videos and photos up to Google photos. You can turn that off, but not in any sort of granular way. For example, you can't say "sync photos, but d…

While I still use Google Photos, there are times that I don't want pictures I take with my phone to be synced to the cloud. Since Google Photos does not allow such functionality, I installed a second camera app. That app allows me to choose where the picture are saved, so I save them to a folder that doesn't get backed up by Google Photos. It's annoying to have to do this, but at least I can finally choose what gets…

I specifically use "Secure Cam" from GrapheneOS (mine came from Google Play) for this, as it is close to the stock pixel camera and doesn't suffer the lag some other camera apps have.

-- edit

I originally called the app "private cam" and said it was from fdroid, apologies! Forgot I had aliased it.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by godshatter »

This is a general question; is no one else worried about Amazon or whichever company trolling your photos with face recognition, building up a graph of who you are connected to, all in the name of "giving you a better shopping experience"? Or who knows what else they might do with the meta data or AI object recognition shenanigans.

I guess I don't extend much trust to the companies that provide these services, especially if they are free. But then I don't take many photos nor share them around much. That might change the equation a bit if I was more into that. What photos I do take that I want to keep I download to my desktop.

Maybe I'm just too damned cynical.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by mikewarot »

raffraffraff wrote: post #214
mikewarot wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Digikam is less crashy than it used to be. Its slowly going through my 650,000+ photos and finding faces. I started this past Sunday. I expect to be done in a week or two.

Finding faces or identifying faces ? Because I tried the latter and it was horrendously bad.

Right now, it appears to be doing both.

I really miss Picassa... if it wasn't for a bug in the last version, where it sometimes swapped face tags, I'd still be using it.

Re: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

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Post by unixhero »

godshatter wrote: post #218

This is a general question; is no one else worried about Amazon or whichever company trolling your photos with face recognition, building up a graph of who you are connected to, all in the name of "giving you a better shopping experience"? Or who knows what else they might do with the meta data or AI object recognition shenanigans. I guess I don't extend much trust to the companies that provide these services, especi…

I am very worried about this. Yes. Facebook already did this since 2007, or earlier.
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