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The Google photos user this is really fucked up. I primarily use Google photos to manage my kids pictures as well what did you move to?

roblabla 3y ago
The solution isn't to move. Every storage mechanism is going to have some amount of failures. The solution is redundancy. Store your valuable files on multiple medium. I know a lot of people that have both google photo and icloud - that works okay. You can also schedule backups to a NAS or some other cloud storage.
- xcv123 3y ago
  The failures being reported in the comments here are unacceptable. Better to have redundancy across services that are more reliable with better customer support. Choose companies that specialize in file storage, not a shitty advertising company (Mega, Dropbox).
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stateofinquiry 3y ago
This is not for everyone, but I host my family photos myself, most recently with this: https://piwigo.org/ https://piwigo.org/. I have been doing this since 2007 (started on a different software, called "gallery". Was able to migrate from gallery2 to gallery3 and now piwigo), and so far no major issues. Advantage: I can easily share photos with family, no need for iCloud, Facebook, or indeed any service- they just need a web browser on their desktop computer or phone.
swatcoder 3y ago
You want to pursue uncorrelated redundancy more than you want a signular alternative. People who came up in the cloud era were promised the false (impossible) idea that large conpanies could and would eradicate your risk of data loss if you just paid them a few dollars a month. That's not a thing. If you really can't tolerate some loss, you need to coordinate something more robust across a few different and dissimilar options. And even then you'll still have risk. That said, even just making sure you keep local copies of your archive or print your treasured favorites can go a long way towards greater reliability that without a lot of extra effort.
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bcrosby95 3y ago
Everything in my family dropbox - I make sure all of them can fit on both my and my wife's laptops. With backblaze backup. And a backup to a local external hard drive. I also keep a checksum of each file that I regularly... check.
r3trohack3r 3y ago
I now back up valuable files to three regions in S3, three regions in Google Cloud, and offline physical storage I keep on a shelf in my office.
tyfon 3y ago
Personally I have turned off google photos and had turned off apple photos when I had an iphone for a couple of years. Instead I use sync.com (yes, UI is horrible and it's slow, but it works) and my synology NAS that is mirroring to a synology NAS at my fathers house (we mirror each others photos). Basic rule of thumb, if it's free they don't care.
xcv123 3y ago
https://mega.io https://mega.io The quality of their software is vastly superior to Google Drive. They have mobile, desktop, and CLI apps on Windows/Apple/Linux. Been using them for a year without issues.
- koiueo 3y ago
  This company is owned by Kim Dotcom, isn't it? Are you ok with entrusting him anything of value?
  - xcv123 3y ago
    It was started by him but he is no longer involved. Even if he was still running the company I would trust him infinitely more than Google or Microsoft. Also I like that they are based in New Zealand. Their software is well engineered and is open source. https://github.com/meganz https://github.com/meganz
ska 3y ago
There really isn't any single service you can move to, to be "safe". This is why 3-2-1 backup schemes exist for important data, although they have morphed a bit with cloud usage. The basic idea is to be robust to any single point of failure (at minimum, but extra redundancy costs). So if your laptop or your google photos blows up, you still have everything. If you have things you really care about not losing, you need a backup strategy.

roblabla 3y ago

The solution isn't to move. Every storage mechanism is going to have some amount of failures. The solution is redundancy. Store your valuable files on multiple medium. I know a lot of people that have both google photo and icloud - that works okay. You can also schedule backups to a NAS or some other cloud storage.

xcv123 3y ago
The failures being reported in the comments here are unacceptable. Better to have redundancy across services that are more reliable with better customer support. Choose companies that specialize in file storage, not a shitty advertising company (Mega, Dropbox).
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stateofinquiry 3y ago

This is not for everyone, but I host my family photos myself, most recently with this: https://piwigo.org/ https://piwigo.org/. I have been doing this since 2007 (started on a different software, called "gallery". Was able to migrate from gallery2 to gallery3 and now piwigo), and so far no major issues. Advantage: I can easily share photos with family, no need for iCloud, Facebook, or indeed any service- they just need a web browser on their desktop computer or phone.

swatcoder 3y ago

You want to pursue uncorrelated redundancy more than you want a signular alternative. People who came up in the cloud era were promised the false (impossible) idea that large conpanies could and would eradicate your risk of data loss if you just paid them a few dollars a month. That's not a thing. If you really can't tolerate some loss, you need to coordinate something more robust across a few different and dissimilar options. And even then you'll still have risk. That said, even just making sure you keep local copies of your archive or print your treasured favorites can go a long way towards greater reliability that without a lot of extra effort.

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bcrosby95 3y ago

Everything in my family dropbox - I make sure all of them can fit on both my and my wife's laptops. With backblaze backup. And a backup to a local external hard drive. I also keep a checksum of each file that I regularly... check.

r3trohack3r 3y ago

I now back up valuable files to three regions in S3, three regions in Google Cloud, and offline physical storage I keep on a shelf in my office.

tyfon 3y ago

Personally I have turned off google photos and had turned off apple photos when I had an iphone for a couple of years. Instead I use sync.com (yes, UI is horrible and it's slow, but it works) and my synology NAS that is mirroring to a synology NAS at my fathers house (we mirror each others photos). Basic rule of thumb, if it's free they don't care.

xcv123 3y ago

https://mega.io https://mega.io The quality of their software is vastly superior to Google Drive. They have mobile, desktop, and CLI apps on Windows/Apple/Linux. Been using them for a year without issues.

koiueo 3y ago
This company is owned by Kim Dotcom, isn't it? Are you ok with entrusting him anything of value?
- xcv123 3y ago
  It was started by him but he is no longer involved. Even if he was still running the company I would trust him infinitely more than Google or Microsoft. Also I like that they are based in New Zealand. Their software is well engineered and is open source. https://github.com/meganz https://github.com/meganz

ska 3y ago

There really isn't any single service you can move to, to be "safe". This is why 3-2-1 backup schemes exist for important data, although they have morphed a bit with cloud usage. The basic idea is to be robust to any single point of failure (at minimum, but extra redundancy costs). So if your laptop or your google photos blows up, you still have everything. If you have things you really care about not losing, you need a backup strategy.