> Self hosting my photo albums
I used to do this, until I learned the value of offsite backups.
Learn from my mistake (if you aren't already :) ).
> Self hosting my photo albums
I used to do this, until I learned the value of offsite backups.
Learn from my mistake (if you aren't already :) ).
I use backblaze with restic. Got about 300GB up there, fully encrypted, keys in 1Password.
My exact setup. Main repo on a second internal disk, one replica on an external disk, second replica in backblaze. Replicas are kept in sync with `restic copy`. Backup integrity gets checked automatically with `restic check`. It all works great.
Same here. It's been very reliable for me.
I have an encrypted offsite backup. A lot of people I know with home servers work out a deal with a family member to have cross-backups with each other.
Sadly I don’t have a family member that I can trust with that, but I do put an encrypted copy on AWS glacier and I have an encrypted volume in Dropbox.
Yeah I do something similar, a local backup on an external drive that mostly lives in a different place and a last resort backup in glacier
> encrypted volume
This.
What ist your plan if you die? Do you have a spouse that will be able to read your-and-your-spouses data?
I am on the older side and do not plan to be in another long term relationship. not a helpful answer maybe
Yes, my spouse has access to my password storage, which has all the decryption keys. Whether she remembers how to do it is a different question. :). Maybe I should write it down, or show one of my kids...
you should probably include the instructions in your estate document kit
That's why you always practice 3-2-1 with important data.
My photos are on: Captured devices(phones, camera). Immich on my homelab, and google photo(which is lossy, but better than nothing).
The issue with this is that Google gets a copy of your photos. If you really want to use Google or other cloud storage, you should encrypt your files.
Proton Drive may work better here?
I am honestly not sure. I use GG photo because that what i use first and i was too lazy to investigate better deal. Also, i know Google does really well at keeping my data available, which is what you want for backup.
One mistake with your google account and poof, everything is gone.
Granted, an average person most likely will never mess up, but in google-land the surface area where to make that mistake is quite large.
Luckily i have 321 back up, don't i ?
I didn't check ToS of proton drive, but in my experience, every cloud storage has requirement about what kind of data is allowed to store(after all, they dont want to accidentally store illegal stuff).
I just purchased a hetzner storage box and used claude to configure kopia to backup to it.
I then tested restore vis kopia desktop onto my desktop to validate restore works.
13 eur for 5tb is more than enough for immich backups for my personal use.
What happened?? As someone who is currently doing this without backups…
I moved homes and damaged both drives because they traveled together.
I have mine in a RAID 5 setup rn because I was scared about that, but I definitely should set up offsite backups, it’s just so expensive
Raid is not a backup :( For the really important data (photos, documents, ecc) a small 1GB raspberry pi + USB external HDD works great as a Borg server for daily backup, there is no need for a full NAS when you can store all important data in less the a handful of terabytes
A raid is one layer and one copy in a backup.
Inherently to inner copy it provides some redundancy.
Backups need more than one copy.
RAID is not a backup because anything happening within that file system happens to both drives immediately.
ZFS snapshots can help, but this is one layer of a comprehensive backup strategy.
both drives? Only 2 mirrored drives isn't really what a RAID can be.
Constructing a RAID5 with 4 drives provides failover and recovery if one of the drives dies.
You can have as much redundancy as you like on your RAID, but if you fat finger an rm -r it's all gone.
A real backup protects both against hardware faults and accidental deletion.
I’m not implying Raid 5 on its own is a complete backup.
Within a storage array though it does provide redundancy at that level, and generally speaking most people don’t access a raid or NAS at a shell level only where they drop rm -fr’s
Separate and offsite backups are non negotiable, however running a raid 5 locally can greatly reduce storage rebuild/restore time, if a single drive fails the rest of the raid continues to work fine until replaced.
A RAID 5 setup is more exposed to that. He had to damage all of his disks to lose all data, you need to damage two of your disks to lose all data
I use RAID1 so that each disk can be pulled and used as standalone.
HDD failure probably
Or a house fire, or flood...
Yeah. Which is why I use Ente.com. But I should have a offsite backup of ente.com copy self-hosted as well maybe.
That’s sad :( Where do You backup offsite now?