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Where do you store your library?

by gopher2 11y ago

veidr 11y ago
I'm not clord, but I have a similar setup. I store my 1TB+ library on a 10TB thunderbolt RAID box directly attached to my main workstation (a Mac Pro). It's backed up to the cloud with Arq (which is great) and also Backblaze (which I am less sure about, never had to use it). This is more flexible and monoculture-avoiding than any of the cloud services; using the stock OS file sharing, the Mac Mini that runs my TV mounts a subset of the library (the "2015" folder) read-only, and uses that to run the screensaver so that when the TV is idle (hopefully most of the time) we see a nice recent photos montage. It's also great when you somehow really need those photos from last July for some reason; just SFTP in from any kind of computer and download the "2014-07" folder. I would like to have a web UI for it, but not a shitty one, which is all I have been able to find. Building one sounds fun, but nope, I have kids, maybe when I am in my sixties... it's not really a thing that I actually need. But I do like having it. I keep 500GB or so in Google Photos, and also in iCloud photo library to try those out. Google Photos is pretty good for a web app, and very fast for a web app, which means it is way to slow and way to shitty for me to use as a main tool of managing my photos. Photos.app is OK when it works, but it's Apple, so as many people here and the guy whose blog post spawned this whole thread have noted, it has far too many bugs and weird failure modes (many of which would be catastrophic without good backups). Even though I have good backups of the photo files themselves, I am not going to invest time in arranging things in Photos albums when the preponderance of historical experience indicates there is zero chance those albums will be readable/usable in ten (EDIT: okay, maybe 20) years without resorting to e.g. maintaining a VM of ancient OS X...
clord 11y ago
On a local disk, which is mirrored periodically to a redundant ZFS filesystem in a utility room.

Where do you store your library?

by gopher2 11y ago

Where do you store your library?

veidr 11y ago

I'm not clord, but I have a similar setup. I store my 1TB+ library on a 10TB thunderbolt RAID box directly attached to my main workstation (a Mac Pro). It's backed up to the cloud with Arq (which is great) and also Backblaze (which I am less sure about, never had to use it). This is more flexible and monoculture-avoiding than any of the cloud services; using the stock OS file sharing, the Mac Mini that runs my TV mounts a subset of the library (the "2015" folder) read-only, and uses that to run the screensaver so that when the TV is idle (hopefully most of the time) we see a nice recent photos montage. It's also great when you somehow really need those photos from last July for some reason; just SFTP in from any kind of computer and download the "2014-07" folder. I would like to have a web UI for it, but not a shitty one, which is all I have been able to find. Building one sounds fun, but nope, I have kids, maybe when I am in my sixties... it's not really a thing that I actually need. But I do like having it. I keep 500GB or so in Google Photos, and also in iCloud photo library to try those out. Google Photos is pretty good for a web app, and very fast for a web app, which means it is way to slow and way to shitty for me to use as a main tool of managing my photos. Photos.app is OK when it works, but it's Apple, so as many people here and the guy whose blog post spawned this whole thread have noted, it has far too many bugs and weird failure modes (many of which would be catastrophic without good backups). Even though I have good backups of the photo files themselves, I am not going to invest time in arranging things in Photos albums when the preponderance of historical experience indicates there is zero chance those albums will be readable/usable in ten (EDIT: okay, maybe 20) years without resorting to e.g. maintaining a VM of ancient OS X...

clord 11y ago

On a local disk, which is mirrored periodically to a redundant ZFS filesystem in a utility room.