I got 1tb on OneDrive and use it for the sake of too lazy to switch
I hope you at least encrypt everything
I store only my personal nudes there. The AI knows me well.
Synology’s Photos system, NAS in my home with replicated backuos to an attached second volume. Haven’t done offsite backups tho and that eats away at the back of my mind a tiny bit constantly. Just so damn expensive to back up well over a terabyte of photos and videos offsite in a zeeo-trust way (as in the backup provider or attackers oe law enforcement cannot ever decrypt them)
When (if?) it enshittifies I’m pretty sold on immich as a replacement tho, and I’m not sure yet how I’d do, like, auto backup from my phone, that shit just works crazy reliably with Synology Photos
I have only used backup USB drives. Never have used a backup service ever. I use Acronis to back up my systems and then copy the TIB to the USB drive as well.
Immich to backup to my storage. Restic to back that up to cloud
Immich to one server, syncthing to another. Both servers backed up with restic to hetzner storage box.
I’m in IT and have fucked around with various NASs and different RAID setups for decades. What will annoy my fellow nerds, but is an absolute truth, is that Amazon photos, which is ‘free’ with Prime is a far, far better solution in terms of convenience, usability and reliability than anything else I’ve been doing. We’ve tens of thousands of photos synched to it and, not only that, we actually go back and look at these memories frequently as it’s setup as a screen saver on our firesticks and other devices. We’ve literally watched a movie as a family and then spent half an hour after watching the picture slideshows that come up. Other than being part of the Amazon ecosystem which I know will garner righteous hatred (and perhaps rightly), I genuinely can’t fault it and sleep easy knowing that my stuff is safe.
Incoming hatred because Amazon, like you said.
I used it for years, and it works well, and it’s the cheapest option if you’re already paying for prime, but fuck that shit I cancelled prime and don’t miss it.
I have immich on a NAS, my phones backup to it, and I manually upload from my cameras. I have the NAS synced to a remote NAS I keep in another country with syncthing (not an option for everyone I know, but also not strictly necessary), which is backed up to Backblaze. Though that’s getting expensive and beginning to enshitify so will likely figure out another solution soon.
Building a new NAS soon and I’ll be looking at new cloud backup options then.
Get it, and I am not a fan of the company, but we live in rural Scotland -and simply cannot economically buy all the thing we need locally. Prime has the ‘free’ postage, so we basically hold our nose and use it. Not proud of that, but it is what it is and Prime photos just works.
If it works for you, who cares what others think. Sounds like a great time watching memories with your family.
iCloud as primary, Proton Drive as secondary
Primary is three (encrypted) rotating external drives with one always offsite. Secondary is occasional backup of the most important data to backblaze.
I have some debatably important text data like my Silverbullet.md notes and project code that also get auto pushed to a private git repo every night (if changed) in addition to the regular backups.
Immich
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Immich on my self-hosted server at home + backups to https://filen.io/
Nice try, government.
Currently, nothing.
I store my photos on a 4TB local drive in my computer.
This autumn though, I have accepted that I need to bite the bullet and over pay for the last two drives in my NAS build.
I currently have four 8TB drives, but need two more to complete my plan for a zraid2 32TB storage array.
Backup?
PGP encrypted archives uploaded to Internxt, mirrored on an external SSD.
Syncthing, automatic storage to my NAS and main PC.
I have this. I have Syncthing on our phones as well to backup our images to desktop, configured as when I move the images away on the desktop it makes room on the phone.
Excellent, I do love the way syncthing makes that simple.
I use SMBSync2 to move any pictures more than a month old into a backup folder so they don’t clog my phone. Keeps things neat.
