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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.

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[–] fascicle@leminal.space 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I had to move the 4tb external

Caution if that's an off-the-shelf external rig: the disks in there are apparently of lower quality. Sorry to nag you if you did the right thing and got a reliable USB<->SSD adapter and a high-quality disk.

[–] fascicle@leminal.space 1 points 6 days ago

I got a usb4 adapter to put my disk in since I already had it. I think the adapter is like a qwizlib or something like that.

I got it because its like a big heatsink and no fan, good for when I go camping I didn't want the fan sucking in dust. But I'm pretty surprised by how hot it gets, hot to the touch so not sure how good it is for the drive