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.
Oh boy.
So myself (and others) use Nextcloud to back photos up to my self-hosted Nextcloud instance.
This creates it’s own incremental backups on a backup drive on the same server as the actual installation. I also sync the files to another drive just using the Nextcloud sync client, and these can then be read cleanly by Immich, Photoprism, whatever else I’m running that day.
I sync the photos into a paid Ente plan that I got cheap paying for 2 years to get a 5 year plan in what they said was their last ever black friday sale. End to end encrypted but hosted by them.
I then have a borg backup of all files across all the Nextcloud accounts as well as all my other self hosted stuff. This is stored on a backup disk but is also synced to Backblaze B2 storage for offsite.
I then also burned all files to Mdisc 100GB disks including a duplicate copy stored offsite.
The photos and videos I have collected over my life are very important to me, as you might be able to tell.