I am currently thinking about my own setup for photo and video backup, and was curious what other people are using as their own backup systems.

Do you use online photo hosting like Google photos? Do you use self hosted backup system / network accessed storage? How many backups do you have in total? Do you split by medium and location?

Apologies if there is such a question on lemmy already.

  • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
    4·
    29 days ago

    I did Film & TV in uni. One of the things they told me as a newbie was “keep three physical copies, two in your home and one in a different location”

    So I keep three physical copies, all in my home, cause none of my friends wanted to keep my external hard-drive clearly labeled “high-res dick pics”

    EDIT: Nah, but seriously, before you consider online storage, do physical. SSD if you can, they last longer.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      29 days ago

      before you consider online storage, do physical. SSD

      A stashed SSD isn’t physical: it’s an on-prem digital copy. Printed sheets would be ‘physical’.

      if you can, they last longer.

      Comma splice, by the way.

  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
    3·
    28 days ago

    Some interesting and technically impressive replies here. I’m painfully aware that in this context my reply will seem appallingly gauche, but… I use Amazon Photos.

    I’ve got an old NAS that has all our precious photos and vids on, but Amazon Photos comes free with prime and, as the multiple firesticks we’ve got for IPTV have a screen saver that can slideshow your pictures, it means that we actually view the many thousands we’ve got on our main TVs.

    What can I say - it just works, it’s convenient and accessible. I’m sure if I was a professional photographer I’d have a way different approach, but that ain’t me.

  • gergo@lemmy.world
    3·
    28 days ago

    I backup to Nextcloud and then use the Memories app to access them. I’ll admit that it’s not as flashy as Google Photos but actually it almost is.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      28 days ago

      I backup with nextcloud too but never messed with memories. My next big project is organizing my photos and moving to immich.

      • gergo@lemmy.world
        3·
        27 days ago

        Yeah immich has been on the roadmap for me for a while too… but i think NC+Memories is just good enough to make me lazy enough to neglect/delay the Immich move 🤣

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    29 days ago

    I use r-sync to compress and store them on two external drives. Same with all my other personal files.

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
    2·
    27 days ago

    I’m currently in the middle of switching.

    I’m using immich, running on a raspberry Pi, saving to my NAS mounted as a network drive. I access it remotely via a CloudFlare tunnel.

    However CloudFlare doesn’t like serving video for free, so I’ma move to a VPS running pangolin and a few other security tools.

    I also plan to find a better off-site disaster recovery backup solution for my NAS. Maybe AWS glacier, or maybe another NAS at my parents connected via tailscale, where I can send periodic full backups.

  • Lasherz@lemmy.world
    1·
    29 days ago

    I keep it simple, two Exos drives in raid1 on a desktop computer facing the network. If you want to make it do other stuff it’s an easy foundation to build on. For a while I used a robocopy script to cut from my dash cam sd card’s event folder any time it was hooked up.

  • gi1242@lemmy.world
    1·
    29 days ago

    i use syncthing to mirror pics on my computers and rsync to back them up on a different computer. (i use raid on my backup server)

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      29 days ago

      which backups to my server

      which backs up to my server

      If you confuse the noun and verb form, or just forget that space, the conjugation then falls over.

  • ArchEngel@lemmy.ca
    1·
    27 days ago

    I’m using Immich, and I’m hopefully setting up Duplicati with a friend so we both back up (encrypted) each others files. Self hosted, and the 3-2-1 backup rule!

  • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    27 days ago

    Synology NAS. Had it for a few years. Comes with Synology Photos, which is like Google Photos in terms of functionality (but local, of course).

    I’ve heard good things about immich too, but haven’t tried it yet.

    I’ve tried Ente and that’s also a good solution for how turnkey it is.