• Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    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

  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
    82·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • 3abas@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 days ago

        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.

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      If it works for you, who cares what others think. Sounds like a great time watching memories with your family.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • Cellari@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • essell@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        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.

    • k0e3@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 day ago

      Can you make videos private and only accessible to certain people on peertube??

      • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
        2·
        21 hours ago

        Yes there are several ways to do it:

        1. Put a password on a specific video and share the password with specific people
        2. Make them “internal”, they will not be distributed via activity pub and only people who have an account on your instance can see them (this is what I do, I gave friends and family an account on my instance, about 90% of my videos are internal)
        3. Make the video unlisted, like on youtube only people with the direct link can see it, doesn’t federate and doesn’t show up in lists or search
        4. Make it private, only you can see it
    • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Same here. Immich is on a vps from Contabo. And my PeerTube instance runs on dedicated physical server also with Contabo.