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Once the baby videos started rolling in all the cloud solutions started getting expensive real fast. I had to stoop down to running my own file server. Buy a

Once the baby videos started rolling in all the cloud solutions started getting expensive real fast. I had to stoop down to running my own file server. Buy a pair of drives every now and then to expand, and nightly rsync to keep things backed up. The product I would like is a photo album with an indexing and web interface components, and plugins to make sense of different phone platforms. Nannies love to text videos and getting those off the phone has been a pain; I end up saving the whole iOS backup and scraping any media looking files from it.

_sdegutis 9y ago
Running my own server and writing a script to scrape files or even doing it manually is too much work for me, I just don't have the time to dedicate to something like that. That's why I'd pay premium for a service that automates this for me.
balls187 9y ago
How much baby video do you record? I have to imagine you're usage is an outlier here.
- foobarian 9y ago
  Up to two TB now at 3yro kid. Part of the problem is the video resolutions grew a lot, and having to snapshot the whole phone whenever it fills up. (Though I did some deduping and the redundancy is not as high as I thought...) I doubt my usage is an outlier. But I suspect that I keep more video than most people just because I can.
  - antongribok 9y ago
    I do the same thing, although my data growth seems to be a bit higher. My kid is less than a year old and I'm on pace to generate about 2-2.5 TiB for the first year. (Mostly 4k video.) At some point I might start thinking of re-encoding the originals, but so far storage is cheap to have locally, and I'm going to see how long I can keep this up.
acejam 9y ago
I'm also the same way. I try to keep everything, because I can, and I'm also now storing baby videos. I have a 2TB iCloud plan for my iPhone X. The phone is set to "Optimize Storage", so it will de-scale old "local" pictures once I hit ~256GB. In the background, I also have the free and unlimited version of Google Photos running. It automatically uploads everything, including videos. Videos will be scaled to 16 MP / 1080p, but I'm not complaining since it's free. I haven't hit 2TB yet, but so far it works. I also have a 20TB Synology NAS setup, but have little desire to run my own photo storage/hosting. The Photos app on my MacBook Pro also is set to download everything via iCloud Photo Library, so that's also backed up to the NAS via Time Machine.

_sdegutis 9y ago

Running my own server and writing a script to scrape files or even doing it manually is too much work for me, I just don't have the time to dedicate to something like that. That's why I'd pay premium for a service that automates this for me.

balls187 9y ago

How much baby video do you record? I have to imagine you're usage is an outlier here.

foobarian 9y ago
Up to two TB now at 3yro kid. Part of the problem is the video resolutions grew a lot, and having to snapshot the whole phone whenever it fills up. (Though I did some deduping and the redundancy is not as high as I thought...) I doubt my usage is an outlier. But I suspect that I keep more video than most people just because I can.
- antongribok 9y ago
  I do the same thing, although my data growth seems to be a bit higher. My kid is less than a year old and I'm on pace to generate about 2-2.5 TiB for the first year. (Mostly 4k video.) At some point I might start thinking of re-encoding the originals, but so far storage is cheap to have locally, and I'm going to see how long I can keep this up.

acejam 9y ago

I'm also the same way. I try to keep everything, because I can, and I'm also now storing baby videos. I have a 2TB iCloud plan for my iPhone X. The phone is set to "Optimize Storage", so it will de-scale old "local" pictures once I hit ~256GB. In the background, I also have the free and unlimited version of Google Photos running. It automatically uploads everything, including videos. Videos will be scaled to 16 MP / 1080p, but I'm not complaining since it's free. I haven't hit 2TB yet, but so far it works. I also have a 20TB Synology NAS setup, but have little desire to run my own photo storage/hosting. The Photos app on my MacBook Pro also is set to download everything via iCloud Photo Library, so that's also backed up to the NAS via Time Machine.