About to have my first kid, have been thinking deeply about this and decided having my own storage server is the best route. ZFS raid with redundancy to survive 2 drive losses.
Will also backup offsite and take a manual snapshot each year for all my pics. Unlikely that I will backup the Plex-style media.
I am just as afraid of Google shutting off my account as I am about losing my own data.
I’ve been thinking about creating a service to back files up for 100+ years. I think s3 will be around that long, but the offering would need to survive the saas shutdown with a way to continue paying the bills. Could have an escrow fund to incentivize devs to maintain cloud storage integrations, with some sort of a voting mechanism for subscribers (crypto tokens for corp governance?)
Just putting a few half baked thoughts into the ether in case you find it interesting.
1. I use nextcloud to backup photos to my NAS
2. A nightly job backups my photos to Amazon Glacier (very cheap to store, very expensive to retrieve) - This is only in the case of a catastrophic failure (e.g. house burns down).
3. Every month or so I copy the photos to an external drive (manually)
I am thinking of buying a NAS that I can setup in my parents house so I can transfer them over there automatically instead of the manual copy action to the external drive
Will also backup offsite and take a manual snapshot each year for all my pics. Unlikely that I will backup the Plex-style media.
I am just as afraid of Google shutting off my account as I am about losing my own data.
I’ve been thinking about creating a service to back files up for 100+ years. I think s3 will be around that long, but the offering would need to survive the saas shutdown with a way to continue paying the bills. Could have an escrow fund to incentivize devs to maintain cloud storage integrations, with some sort of a voting mechanism for subscribers (crypto tokens for corp governance?)
Just putting a few half baked thoughts into the ether in case you find it interesting.