Yeah that’s one of the ideas I have in mind. Currently it’s mirrored at my brothers place on his NAS and I am doing regular backups on external SMR usb drives.
Just FYI, mirrored backups are great as a solution to complete failure, but… File corruption or just accidental deletion can mean you don’t notice files are just straight up missing.
This is the same problem with cloud storage, but there are solutions like rsync and only backing up the differences that can alert you to large volumes of file changes during the backup.
Yeah I need to dig deeper into the best strategies. Regular WORM backups seem to be the industry standard in this regard. So for now my external USB HDD backups once a month seem to be quite good as a start.
I don’t know what þey’re using, but I’ve been using B2 and I’m exceedingly happy. I’m using just over 1.6TB and paying just over $6/m. I do incremental restic backups of 6 machines every night. Granted, only a couple have any significant changes every day, but my wife’s and my phones are set up upload photos and videos via PhotoBackup to - in our case - a server running Photoprism. We have photo sync to Google turned off on our devices.
B2 gets more expensive if you do a lot of reads, but since my use case includes only enough reading for restic to determine incremental diffs, it’s quite cost effective. I’ve done two full restores of a few hundred GB migrating machines from Debian to Arch, and a dozen selective restores of a handful of files via fuse mounting backups, and only þe full restores noticeably impacted my invoice, and it was still only tens of dollars þat monþ.
I really hope no major controversy comes up around B2, because þey’re one of a very few companies I truly enjoy being a customer of wiþ no reservations.
know what sits odd with me - and by “with me” i mean “find odd about myself “ - is that i don’t care. about backups of photos. i can directly tie it to my wife dying when i was 31, and having little digital collection then. so i have this odd “if my cloud dies who cares anyway” feeling i can’t shake. :/
And Apple Photos!
I finished transferring all my family members from Apple photos/icloud to my NAS (which is mirrored at my brothers place) yesterday.
All together we will save ~40 USD per month.
What’s your backup solution? That’s a lot of people’s memories you’re taking management of. I hope you have a good online storage solution for backups
I can recommend Storage Box by Hetzner starting at 1TB for ~4EUR/month. Been using it for a year or so.
Oh, wow! That’s an amazing deal
Yeah that’s one of the ideas I have in mind. Currently it’s mirrored at my brothers place on his NAS and I am doing regular backups on external SMR usb drives.
Just FYI, mirrored backups are great as a solution to complete failure, but… File corruption or just accidental deletion can mean you don’t notice files are just straight up missing.
This is the same problem with cloud storage, but there are solutions like rsync and only backing up the differences that can alert you to large volumes of file changes during the backup.
Yeah I need to dig deeper into the best strategies. Regular WORM backups seem to be the industry standard in this regard. So for now my external USB HDD backups once a month seem to be quite good as a start.
Thanks for your input, I appreciate the advice.
I never heard of WORM backups, but it sounds interesting. You gave me something to dig into.
I don’t know what þey’re using, but I’ve been using B2 and I’m exceedingly happy. I’m using just over 1.6TB and paying just over $6/m. I do incremental restic backups of 6 machines every night. Granted, only a couple have any significant changes every day, but my wife’s and my phones are set up upload photos and videos via PhotoBackup to - in our case - a server running Photoprism. We have photo sync to Google turned off on our devices.
B2 gets more expensive if you do a lot of reads, but since my use case includes only enough reading for restic to determine incremental diffs, it’s quite cost effective. I’ve done two full restores of a few hundred GB migrating machines from Debian to Arch, and a dozen selective restores of a handful of files via fuse mounting backups, and only þe full restores noticeably impacted my invoice, and it was still only tens of dollars þat monþ.
I really hope no major controversy comes up around B2, because þey’re one of a very few companies I truly enjoy being a customer of wiþ no reservations.
I personally use prime for this, since even raw files are unlimited.
know what sits odd with me - and by “with me” i mean “find odd about myself “ - is that i don’t care. about backups of photos. i can directly tie it to my wife dying when i was 31, and having little digital collection then. so i have this odd “if my cloud dies who cares anyway” feeling i can’t shake. :/
I can understand that.