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Ask HN: How do you sync your photos to your $FAVORITE_STORAGE?
Fellow hackers.
I am sitting on 1/4 terabyte of family photos. Mostly taken from phone cameras, and the rest from "real" cameras (you know, that weird stuff that cannot make phone calls by itself).
What's your favorite choice to you move all that photos to a permanent storage? On a typical day my family will make between 1-200 photos.
I want to minimize loss of photos by not syncing often enough.
How do you do it?
- aq3cn 10y agorecent ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=13055693 https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=13055693
- twothamendment 10y agoI've been using own cloud for a while. Phones sync photos/videos using the own cloud app. For non-smart cameras, we'll sync the memory card to a location on a PC that is really an own cloud folder. From there it is a nightly cron to rsync select directories in own cloud to S3. If I had more, I think I'd sync it to an external hard drive instead of S3, but my bill is still reasonable. Yes, I realized there has been a fork in own cloud, so pick whatever makes you happy. I may switch next time I'm looking at upgrading it. For now - it is just working for me so I don't have to think about it. Every month or so I make sure that the last day has what I expect it to on my own server (in the house) and on S3.
- eb0la 10y agoThanks. That was somethimg I had in mind and it it reasonably grandpa-safe ;-)
- brudgers 10y agoHow much loss are you currently experiencing? How often do you sync?
- eb0la 10y agoNot much. Could it be less than 4% due to not having memory cards at hand, etc. We usually sync 3-4 times a year.