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What do people use for a shelf-stable backup (lemmy.nz)

submitted 3 days ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have backups on a backup hard drive and also synced to B2, but I am thinking about backing up to some format to put in the cupboard.

The issue I see is that if I don't have a catastrophic failure and instead just accidentally delete some files one day while organising and don't realise, at some point the oldest backup state is removed and the files are gone.

The other thing is if I get hit by a bus and no one can work out how to decrypt a backup or whatever.

So I'm thinking of a plain old unencrypted copy of photos etc that anyone could find and use. Bonus points if I can just do a new CD or whatever each year with additions.

I have about 700GB of photos and videos which is the main content I'm concerned about. Do people use DVDs for this or is there something bigger? I am adding 60GB or more each year, would be nice to do one annual addition or something like that.

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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For photos? Archival prints. As a bonus, you also get a cool album to reminisce later in life.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't want to sort through the 50k photos, and can't print videos. I'm hoping in 10 or 20 years I'll be able to feed it into AI to spit out all the best ones, then I'll consider it.

We do have photos printed, but only a very small percentage of the total.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Completely understandable. I say this as someone with way more photos in digital only media than I should.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 days ago

I've decided I should have a small number of physical prints, as extra redundancy. I'm thinking I'll print 100 each year to store with the hard drive backup.