Immich
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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.
Did you start at Immich? My problem is I’m already set up at Synology Photos but am considering leaving for Immic. Maybe I’m crazy.
Do you back up to Immich via tailscale?
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.
Desktop, backed up to NAS, nightly pushes to Backblaze b2. Have Immich pointed to the NAS with most of my photos / video as external storage. Any media uploaded to Immich (phone sync) also goes to the NAS and then b2.
Nice try, government.
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.
Backup?
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.
I don’t have photos or videos worth keeping, so I don’t back them up. If the data gets lost, oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ente.
Immich to one server, syncthing to another. Both servers backed up with restic to hetzner storage box.
Synology. Syncing to their cheap cloud storage.
Uhh, while it’s not prohibitively expensive, Synology C2 is definitely not what’d I’d call cheap. Backblaze or Hetzner, yeah. Especially if you go over 1TB, it turns into highway robbery.
I know because I’ve used all three :p
They just raised their rates, but they were cheaper than backblaze.
nothing fancy. manual backup to externals. store at home and the office. checksums are saved on the drives, and re-verified whenever we dig one out to fetch some files or to add more. don’t really need more than that for photos and home movies, so no nas or cloud.
Combination of HDs and cloud storage (don’t judge me too hard, Lemmings!)
Local NAS
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.
