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Do you have any suggestions for a secure/private option to store photos? I'm not sure what would be best. (Dang, I really want to move away from Goo now)

slazaro 4y ago
Your own devices, with a proper backup solution (which you should already have with or without your photos in it). Nobody can mess with your data then. Personally, I use Syncthing to sync between devices, including a NAS as a target, which regularly backs up to Backblaze.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  This sounds a bit like what I do. I r-sync two different libraries to NAS then upload them to Backblaze B2. Post r-sync success result to a muted Slack channel and failure to an unmuted alert channel. rsync -av /Source /Destination rsync -h
victorbstan 4y ago
iCloud
- celsoazevedo 4y ago
  iCloud may be secure, but private? No end-to-end encryption and Apple scans the user's content. It's no better than Google Photos in that regard.
deepersprout 4y ago
I'm using Nextcloud. Works great.
- yawz 4y ago
  Do you self-host it? Do you access it with Android and iOS?
woleium 4y ago
Amazon photos is pretty good as a like for like alternative
khimaros 4y ago
Photoprism
kijin 4y ago
As a starter, look for a "dumb" service that doesn't treat photos differently from any other type of binary blob. No thumbnails. No grouping by date or location. No tagging other people. The storage service should only concern itself with safekeeping the binaries you upload, not analyzing and processing them. Use your own machine to do the latter.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  Backblaze B2.
29083011397778 4y ago
I stood up a pair of QNAP NAS for both my parents and I, and encrypt-then-backup their photos/documents to my NAS, and vice-versa. RAID 5 or 6 keeps hardware failure at bay, and keeping them tucked away in our respective homes makes fire or flood irrelevent (for this). QNAP or Asustor has standalone apps my parents can use as well. Without getting your parents involved, you could either pay for remote hosting for your off-site, or trade RAID space with a friend.
hedora 4y ago
Definitely use client side encryption, if only because it defeats attempts to "repair" image data or rewrite exit headers, etc. Another good test: upload your photo collection, then download it and binary diff the two sets of files.
layer8 4y ago
Managed Nextcloud hosting in the EU is an option.
SkyPuncher 4y ago
Dropbox, Box, a Microsoft service.

slazaro 4y ago

Your own devices, with a proper backup solution (which you should already have with or without your photos in it). Nobody can mess with your data then. Personally, I use Syncthing to sync between devices, including a NAS as a target, which regularly backs up to Backblaze.

lostlogin 4y ago
This sounds a bit like what I do. I r-sync two different libraries to NAS then upload them to Backblaze B2. Post r-sync success result to a muted Slack channel and failure to an unmuted alert channel. rsync -av /Source /Destination rsync -h

victorbstan 4y ago

iCloud

celsoazevedo 4y ago
iCloud may be secure, but private? No end-to-end encryption and Apple scans the user's content. It's no better than Google Photos in that regard.

deepersprout 4y ago

I'm using Nextcloud. Works great.

yawz 4y ago
Do you self-host it? Do you access it with Android and iOS?

woleium 4y ago

Amazon photos is pretty good as a like for like alternative

khimaros 4y ago

Photoprism

kijin 4y ago

As a starter, look for a "dumb" service that doesn't treat photos differently from any other type of binary blob. No thumbnails. No grouping by date or location. No tagging other people. The storage service should only concern itself with safekeeping the binaries you upload, not analyzing and processing them. Use your own machine to do the latter.

lostlogin 4y ago
Backblaze B2.

29083011397778 4y ago

I stood up a pair of QNAP NAS for both my parents and I, and encrypt-then-backup their photos/documents to my NAS, and vice-versa. RAID 5 or 6 keeps hardware failure at bay, and keeping them tucked away in our respective homes makes fire or flood irrelevent (for this). QNAP or Asustor has standalone apps my parents can use as well. Without getting your parents involved, you could either pay for remote hosting for your off-site, or trade RAID space with a friend.

hedora 4y ago

Definitely use client side encryption, if only because it defeats attempts to "repair" image data or rewrite exit headers, etc. Another good test: upload your photo collection, then download it and binary diff the two sets of files.

layer8 4y ago

Managed Nextcloud hosting in the EU is an option.

SkyPuncher 4y ago

Dropbox, Box, a Microsoft service.