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Use Google Photos on my android phone, then use gphotos-sync[0] to sync the files to a hard drive on my DIY NAS. Contents of hard drive are periodically backed
by mcjiggerlog 5y ago
Use Google Photos on my android phone, then use gphotos-sync[0] to sync the files to a hard drive on my DIY NAS. Contents of hard drive are periodically backed up with restic[1] to B2[2].
My reasoning is that I don't trust Google to not lock me out of my account at some point, so having both a local and a remote backup gives me piece of mind. I periodically check the offsite backup to check that it's still all working. Total cost for about a terabyte of files (it's not only photos and videos) is about $6/month, which is pretty reasonable.
[0] https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync
[1] https://restic.net/ https://restic.net/
[2] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
- boppo1 5y agoAwesome, I came in here hoping for a google photos downloader!
- mcjiggerlog 5y agoIt's a little fiddly to set up, but once it's working it works flawlessly. This blog post was helpful in setting it up - https://ubuntu.com/blog/safely-backup-google-photos https://ubuntu.com/blog/safely-backup-google-photos.
- dddddaviddddd 5y agoI'd love to use the Google photos API but it's really frustrating that Google won't include geolocation data.
- Hallucinaut 5y agoDoesn't Google reduce the quality of them all when they're uploaded? Not that it's really material in most use cases but I find myself having to do manual backups from my phone.
- mcjiggerlog 5y agoNope - you can switch between "Original quality" and "Storage saver".