How do you keep your photos backed up?

unwashed potato! said:
The trouble is now I have a kid, and I'm filling up my storage with videos.
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you do know you can upload videos to youtube and have them unlisted on the search engine right? literally only people you give the direct link to can discover it.

it's basically a personal video storage system.

even if they were all public they;d probably get like 10 views and disappear from the search algorithm in a few hours.
 
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Scotteh said:
Back up to Google Photos just now with 2TB extra storage.

Main ones are copied to computer too, which backs up to a few other drives.
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Thats what I have and I just go in there and delete old crappy photos that aren't adding any value or are just blurry and mistakes.

I am tempted to copy them all to my NAS but I don't know if there's any point?
 
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For phone pics I have iCloud for the family setup. For all other photos and periodic iPhone dumps i have a dedicated external drive on my main workstation that syncs with my Homeserver (that also has local file mirroring).

The workstation also syncs to Amazon storage via prime.

Lastly for videos it’s the same setup but instead of also syncing with Amazon prime the videos periodically dump to another external drive that’s not located near any of the other kit.
 
arknor said:
you do know you can upload videos to youtube and have them unlisted on the search engine right? literally only people you give the direct link to can discover it.

it's basically a personal video storage system.

even if they were all public they;d probably get like 10 views and disappear from the search algorithm in a few hours.
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Not a bad idea, however it does require some sort of work I'm not sure it's as effortless as I'd like.
 
Self host Immich and everyone has the app on their phone/devices works like Google Photos/Apple Photos.

That is automatically backed up to a USB HDD off-site and AWS in cloud.

Immich

Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.
immich.app immich.app

If you have not tried it or don't know what it is then it's worth 30 minutes of your time investigating it.
 
Journey said:
Self host Immich and everyone has the app on their phone/devices works like Google Photos/Apple Photos.

That is automatically backed up to a USB HDD off-site and AWS in cloud.

Immich

Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.
immich.app immich.app

If you have not tried it or don't know what it is then it's worth 30 minutes of your time investigating it.
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Lookks good thanks
 
Google Photos thinks my phone is a pixel so gets unlimited original size photo backups.
 
Simplest system I found is :

OneDrive on phones set to sync camera roll (to yyyy/mm folders).

Cloud sync (or whatever it’s called on synology) downloading OneDrive folder to the NAS.

NAS then automates pushing to Glacier or some other cheap cold storage.

Although at the moment I have cheaped of the last step and just occasionally copy everything to an external drive and put it in my car.

Either way it’s resilient and no faff, though you gotta pay for the OneDrive (a cheap office sub does for me)
 
immich for everyone in our house on my NAS, need to set up automatic backup to cloud from the NAS. The only annoyance is, as I'm using a Cloudflare tunnel, there's a 100MB file size limit which means phone recorded videos won't back up. So far turning the only solution is turning the tunnel off and allowing the videos to backup.

Once finished, it will be PC > NAS > cloud and random external.
 
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Two cheap hard drives, backed up every few months and then removed from pc. One kept in our house, one at the in-laws.

To be honest, we hardly ever look at 95% of the photos.

Also, my wife gets printed albums (snap fish?)
a couple of times a year with the best photos.
 
Diddums said:
What's "hot storage" and "glacier storage"?
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These are just storage tiers, the "colder" the tier the cheaper the storage is but retrieval is quite expensive. They're aimed for backups that ideally you never need to access.
 
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unwashed potato! said:
this is my concern. i really dont want a job trying to back up all my photos, but i don't want to be paying £70 every year, and then in a few years £120 every year, and then £200. it's only a growing expense
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Realistically those are your only choices. There's no middle ground. You either pay a company an ever increasing price for them to store your photos, or you do everything yourself.
 
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