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The Photo Managers ascribe to the “3-2-1” rule of photography storage. By this logic, you should always have three copies of every photo. Two stored on different media types (such as in the cloud and on an external hard drive), and one copy stored in a sperate, physical location (like an external hard drive stored at a family member’s home). It’s the best protection against faulty tech and natural disasters.
Solid advice for backups in general. Trouble is that for most people, it’s kind of difficult to find a separate physical location that is accessible enough to keep the backup in that place fresh, especially if you don’t want to spend money on it.
And for fuck’s sake, don’t upload your photos to Google. Cloud storage is not bad, but you should pick a provider that respects your privacy. Then again, picking a different, better, provider has the issue that it probably costs money (if it’s a commercial service that doesn’t cost money, you’re probably the product) and there’s a risk that it goes out of business in a couple of years.
Gotta have a nas at home and a nas at a friends house. Redundancy on both.
Friends? In this economy? smh
Well, friends who also have a stable internet connection and won’t sell your NAS to afford their healthcare? Haha
Step 1: Have a fast enough internet connection to upload your data remotely without too much issues.
My upload speed is about 0.3 MiB (byte not bits). Which is probably barely enough for photos, but not for anything bigger than that.
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local NAS syncs over WiFi.
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House to house NAS can go slow, it will eventually get there.
If it takes literal days to complete the upload of a larger file or directory to the backup, that’s rather error-prone.
It’s not error prone if you do it right. Syncing files is easy. But for your situation you might only be able to have the local NAS, which is probably good enough. You can private-cloud most things using something like NextCloud or similar.
Private cloud is rather expensive when you have terabytes of data to back up.
At this point I expect no matter what I say, you will reject my suggestions.
You should use Google or Apple cloud and just accept your privacy loss.
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Because I lost them