I am currently thinking about my own setup for photo and video backup, and was curious what other people are using as their own backup systems.

Do you use online photo hosting like Google photos? Do you use self hosted backup system / network accessed storage? How many backups do you have in total? Do you split by medium and location?

Apologies if there is such a question on lemmy already.

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
    7·
    12 days ago

    Nextcloud for uploading all data, then Immich reading from a shared dir

    (I’ve added immich to the nextcloud group, and make it read from my space in my nextcloud data dir)

      • Lucy :3@feddit.org
        4·
        12 days ago

        Because Immich only handles media, and I have more than that (Signal backups, Termux, configs, Downloads, etc.). So I can either carefully splice that, hope both uploads work and nothing is lost, or upload everything via one method and point immich to the most important directories.

        In an ideal world, I could just treat my phone like any other host, including permanent remote access via sftp, full borg backups and a better/cleaner fs structure.

    • Fritee@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      12 days ago

      These look very neat, thank you.

      Out of curiosity, do you selfhost at home, or via private VPS?

      If at home, wouldn’t eg a fire wipe out the photos? Or do you have several backups?

      • Lucy :3@feddit.org
        2·
        12 days ago

        Almost everything is currently at home (at my fathers home, fiber internet, a basement with enough space etc.). I use borg to backup to a Hetzner Storagebox.

        I only use a VPS for IPv6 addresses with rDNS and a static IPv4 with rDNS, as backup. And the storagebox, ofc.

        Though, hopefully, I’ll soon get another nice deal to have a second server at my fathers place, so I can take the current fallback server back to my home, so I can actually host all my stuff there in case I need to.

  • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    12 days ago

    I don’t use GAFAM storage.

    I barely take any photo anymore, but I use Filen.io fully encrypted cloud storage (they’re made in Germany) to keep a copy of all my files, including the occasional picture. It’s a simple copy of the files and folders on my drives. I also have local backups on external storage (two differents) that are simply encrypted and rotated on a bi-monthly basis.

    For non-confidential work-in-progress I use a different cloud, Swiss this time: Infomaniak KDrive. It’s working real nice but there is no E2EE (if they wanted they could see the content of the files, unlike with Filen).

    Edit: I should have mentioned both services also offer an app that can backup the photos on your phone, if you need one.

  • gigachad@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    I just have set up synching between my mobile and my PC. The DCIM directory is getting synchronized, together with a “share” directory that contains random stuff and my KeePass database. It is my only backup, photos are so omnipresent, if I lose them it’s not a big problem.

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
    2·
    10 days ago

    I’m currently in the middle of switching.

    I’m using immich, running on a raspberry Pi, saving to my NAS mounted as a network drive. I access it remotely via a CloudFlare tunnel.

    However CloudFlare doesn’t like serving video for free, so I’ma move to a VPS running pangolin and a few other security tools.

    I also plan to find a better off-site disaster recovery backup solution for my NAS. Maybe AWS glacier, or maybe another NAS at my parents connected via tailscale, where I can send periodic full backups.

  • gergo@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 days ago

    I backup to Nextcloud and then use the Memories app to access them. I’ll admit that it’s not as flashy as Google Photos but actually it almost is.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      10 days ago

      I backup with nextcloud too but never messed with memories. My next big project is organizing my photos and moving to immich.

      • gergo@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 days ago

        Yeah immich has been on the roadmap for me for a while too… but i think NC+Memories is just good enough to make me lazy enough to neglect/delay the Immich move 🤣

  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 days ago

    Some interesting and technically impressive replies here. I’m painfully aware that in this context myreply will seem appallingly gauche, but… I use Amazon Photos.

    I’ve got an old NAS that has all our precious photos and vids on, but Amazon Photos comes free with prime and, as the multiple firesticks we’ve got for IPTV have a screen saver that can slideshow your pictures, it means that we actually view the many thousands we’ve got on our main TVs.

    What can I say - it just works, it’s convenient and accessible. I’m sure if I was a professional photographer I’d have a way different approach, but that ain’t me.

  • franzbroetchen@feddit.org
    2·
    12 days ago

    I use a self-written tool to extract my images and videos from Apple Photos and back them up incrementally as files and directories using Borg Backup.

    Using this approach I retain full ownership over my data without having to look for alternatives to Apple Photos, which I really enjoy using.

    As a result, I have a “live” copy on my iPhone/Mac/iCloud, a backup on my NAS and a remote Borg Backup repository in a data center.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
    2·
    12 days ago

    All my photos are on nextcloud, on my own home server, which uses a raidz setup for reliability. No further backup.

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    I use r-sync to compress and store them on two external drives. Same with all my other personal files.

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    For stuff I care about I have one copy in a NAS and another copy in an external HDD. For the few things I really care about, additionally, there are copies scattered in most drives I own.

    I don’t use cloud rentals, to me they feel wrong as backups, maybe as short term backups.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    10 days ago

    Photos + Videos: Immich
    The backup repository: Veeam
    How many: Don’t really know. 14 versions made daily?

  • myrmidex@belgae.socialEnglish
    1·
    11 days ago

    I signed up for a plan over at ente.io a couple of years ago, has been smooth ever since. Great app, great sync, I don’t self-host but I believe they offer that option.

  • fascicle@leminal.space
    1·
    12 days ago

    I use immich for all mobile/old jpg and video stuff.

    For raw photos I use syncthing to keep a synced copy from my nas to my external drive so I can edit on the go in full speed vs network connection.

    My previous laptop had two m.2 slots but current tablet only has one so I had to move the 4tb external