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Edit: This is Immich! for the folks who don't know.

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's crazy good for something FREE. Like infinitely better than any major crop google apple etc because you KEEP your photos. Anything you upload to the cloud is being mined by them.

The only thing I tell people is that you need a cloud backup.

I have an automated nightly worker that zips all my photos encrypts them with a 32 character password and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.

[–] fragrantvegetable@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I do something similar using restic to encrypt, deduplicate, and backup my photos to backblaze every now and then. Out of curiosity, any particular reason you choose zip over something like restic?

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use restic too, just said zip since more people might understand it easier

[–] KennyBell@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.

Any suggestions and estimate pricing?

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use backblaze it's like $3 a month or something

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Agree, backblaze has been great

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 5 points 2 days ago

Wasabi is a very affordable destination for backups. And it has the advantage of not being one of the big three.

[–] devxyn@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I use backblaze, $6/TB/mo. i set it up with restic backups to get my storage usage so low, that I've used it for 4 months and haven't paid yet.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah. I just put the media location on my nas, and that is being mirrored to hetzner.