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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 and inconvenient 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

Immich

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.

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.

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.

Immich on my self-hosted server at home + backups to https://filen.io/

Backup?

iCloud as primary, Proton Drive as secondary

I got 1tb on OneDrive and use it for the sake of too lazy to switch

Nice try, government.

Syncthing, automatic storage to my NAS and main PC.

Immich for backups from the phones.

PeerTube for videos worth sharing with friends and family.

PGP encrypted archives uploaded to Internxt, mirrored on an external SSD.

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.

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.

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.

Photos/videos from my phone get backed up on two laptops and eventually an external drive. Photos from cameras do the same with the more interesting photos going to my phone as well. These all tend to be on the same physical location so I really should find better way.

Photos: Hard copy. The negatives, if they were actual film.

Videos: I don't take any and the things I save can usually be found again. cough some vintage porn notwithstanding...

I don't have photos or videos worth keeping, so I don't back them up. If the data gets lost, oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Local NAS with Nextcloud open to the www.

Local NAS

Plain old internal HDD kept separately from my PC, and a usb dock for running the backup. FreeFileSync makes the process a dream.

Also, idk about anyone else, but I like the physical process of hooking things up. It feels good as opposed to just pressing buttons.

Just synctjing to my local PC. From time to time I backup the important stuff to an external drive.

For my own, absolutely nothing, i don't like pictures. I will gladly let those disappear every time i switch the phone.

For my wifes, just from time to time coping those from mobile to PC and storing it on 2 different hard drives.

Manual backups to externals - honestly nothing that really gets revisited that often so dont feel the need for setting up anything more complex.

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.

Ente.

Combination of HDs and cloud storage (don’t judge me too hard, Lemmings!)

Videos, pictures, music, documents, and all of my family's computer backup files are stored on a local server that has five large drives. Carbonite is used to backup the server. I only need the basic plan.