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For context, I know this is a display issue and not a storage issue and you can get your originals out via Takeout. That being said my photos are the only digi
by scarface74 4y ago
For context, I know this is a display issue and not a storage issue and you can get your originals out via Takeout.
That being said my photos are the only digital files I really care about not losing. My photos and videos from my phone get backed up to iCloud, Google Photos, OneDrive and Amazon’s photo storage that comes with Prime.
My videos get backed up to all of the above except Amazon’s storage.
- ghaff 4y agoYou should back them up locally as well even though that has its own failure points. I consider anything other than a dedicated local and/or cloud file backup system a nice supplementary place to store photos but not primary.
- scarface74 4y agoAt one point I had them synced to my Windows computer via iTunes and that was backed up to Backblaze. But, I don’t have a personal computer anymore and soon won’t have a personal residence. My wife and I are going to be digital nomads traveling across the country for a few years.
- count 4y ago1TB thumb drives are tiny and can hold a TON of pictures.
- Cyph0n 4y agoSame here. I lost some photos years back and decided to never make that same mistake. My backup flow is: phone, iCloud, local ZFS array served by PhotoPrism (synced using PhotoSync), Backblaze.
- natch 4y agoThanks for sharing. I would add a par2 in there somewhere. Not that my system is as good as yours yet.
- Cyph0n 4y agoThe local ZFS array is the “source of truth”. ZFS has built-in end-to-end checksumming. I also have a monthly scrub that should correct any untouched corrupt blocks. Details on ZFS checksums: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/Checksums.html https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/Chec...
- natch 4y agoThanks, that is one way to do it. But if you don’t know about par2 (sorry, I can’t tell from what you’ve said) it’s worth chasing down. It is way, way beyond checksums in what it can do. It’s an old project and information on the internet is getting thin but the math is sound, the tool works, and there is a wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive Edit: btw use of par2 files can be added on as an extra step with minimal storage overhead, without replacing anything you have now.
- Cyph0n 4y agoI’ve heard of par2 through Usenet, but I’ll definitely do some more reading. Thanks for the pointer!