Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by Digory » Fri, Dec 28, 2018, 11:55 PM UTC

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.

I'm surprised this isn't higher. Unlimited pictures are included with Prime; I pay a little more for 1TB of video storage. It's the cheapest way to store our 15 years of stuff.

The app reliably uploads all my wife's photos via WiFi, and the website interface is good.

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

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Post by jnieminen » Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 10:45 AM UTC

Youden wrote: post #51

I don't trust any service with plaintext of my photos so I self host everything. I also have a relatively huge amount of data so most cloud storage is out even if I wanted it. My setup is a Linux-based NAS with LUKS on everything and each HDD in ZFS with RAIDZ2. I store my photos in their own ZFS filesystem on the zpool and use a tool that automatically creates snapshots and keeps varying resolutions for various time…

How did you set up the snapshotting?

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

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Post by Youden » Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC

jnieminen wrote: post #102

Youden wrote: post #51

I don't trust any service with plaintext of my photos so I self host everything. I also have a relatively huge amount of data so most cloud storage is out even if I wanted it. My setup is a Linux-based NAS with LUKS on everything and each HDD in ZFS with RAIDZ2. I store my photos in their own ZFS filesystem on the zpool and use a tool that automatically creates snapshots and keeps varying resolutions for various time…

How did you set up the snapshotting?

I'm using this, but packaged for Arch Linux: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot

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

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Post by budhajeewa » Sun, Dec 30, 2018, 4:16 PM UTC

I store my photos in 4 places.

1. Laptop: Full quality. Storing and viewing purposes.

2. External HDD: Full quality. Storing and viewing purposes.

3. Amazon Glacier: Full quality. Storing purposes.

4. Google Photos: Reduced quality. Viewing and sharing purposes.

I name my photos as per the instructions in https://blog.budhajeewa.com/how-to-freely-and-properly-store... 's "1. Organize photos in your PC by albums" section.