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.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    If I really wanna save a photo, I print it out. For video, I don’t really have anything anymore. I would be doing a physical backup, too, but I don’t currently have a VIVO card (to record to VHS/Betamax) or a DVD burner to be able to do that. I simply keep them on a physical drive that is in my possession.

    Google Photos stores everything I don’t care much about but I don’t like to rely on something I have no real control over. If they go down, I lose my shit. The only way I could lose my shit RN is if I somehow lose the drive I never move anywhere, or it breaks.