I have my phone store all my photos (and other media) on an SD card by default, then periodically remove the card and copy all the contents onto a desktop machine (where it then gets synced to my NAS), then erase the card and put it back in the phone.
What do people do with thier pictures? (modern life, media and backing up)
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#12I use iCloud Photo Library which automagically handles local storage.
Every few years, I get really paranoid about losing photos and videos, so I download the tool du jour to mass download my entire library onto a spare hard drive.
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#13I pay $7/month to backup my machine with BackBlaze. I've learned the hard way to turn off the default exclusions for video files. 8(
I download things from the phone to my PC periodically, so I don't have to worry about those photos either.
I've got multiple copies, including a lot of things on old DVD-Rs.
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#14I should start with the fact that a) I am paranoid about data. b) I don't trust any of the public cloud providers. Not in the sense to keep all my data with any of them and not having a backup copy elsewhere. At the center of my set up is a Synology NAS (2x 8TB RAID 1). I use it as a personal "google drive" via the Synology Drive app. The Synology Drive app is installed on my phone (as well as on my wife's) and is au…
I forgot to say that I also pay for 2TB iCloud storage so I don't have to remove any of my photos from iCloud. I do actually enjoy iCloud, but I don't trust them as sole owners of my data.
Crikey! Nice setup. Feel like I'm more aligned with you on this one where I don't want to put my data in the hands of someone who can both use it and lose it... I've got my NAS in the office but might look into a setup for the whole family
Re: What do people do with thier pictures? (modern life, media and backing up)
#15If I care about it, I print it and put the print in a box. Good luck.
HA! unfortunately its not the 90s anymore :)
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#16I’m lazy, so I pay $2.99/month to not think about it. All my photos I’ve taken in the last 25 years are available on my phone and laptop. That said, I do have some minor worries about something going wrong down the line. I’ve been thinking I should export everything and back it up to my NAS, and keep up on that going forward. But that keeps becoming a “tomorrow” task. There is probably a way to automate this with no…
Same - my partner and I pay the $2.99 with Apple and we'll probably pay more for the larger size when needed. It's not just about being "lazy" per se. Since buying a house and having a baby, life feels so complex and we can only focus on so many things. With the tiny amount of time left over after doing the rest of the necessities of life, do I really want to spend that time setting up and maintaining some fancy NAS scheme?
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#18I’m lazy, so I pay $2.99/month to not think about it. All my photos I’ve taken in the last 25 years are available on my phone and laptop. That said, I do have some minor worries about something going wrong down the line. I’ve been thinking I should export everything and back it up to my NAS, and keep up on that going forward. But that keeps becoming a “tomorrow” task. There is probably a way to automate this with no…
What happens if your account gets banned without warning or chance of appeal? I don't know about Apple, but with Google it's a serious problem.
Re: What do people do with thier pictures? (modern life, media and backing up)
#19I’m lazy, so I pay $2.99/month to not think about it. All my photos I’ve taken in the last 25 years are available on my phone and laptop. That said, I do have some minor worries about something going wrong down the line. I’ve been thinking I should export everything and back it up to my NAS, and keep up on that going forward. But that keeps becoming a “tomorrow” task. There is probably a way to automate this with no…
What happens if your account gets banned without warning or chance of appeal? I don't know about Apple, but with Google it's a serious problem.
Those kind of things, or just issues/bugs, that make me want to have a 2nd backup that I control.
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#20If it isn't on a SD card, then it's backed up on an old hard drive. I have a SATA to USB adapter I use to transfer data.
For my phone photos I probably only have a few hundred from the past 6 years. I delete most of them. Most of my pictures are taken on 'real' cameras.