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I am currently thinking about my own setup for photo and video backup, and was curious what other people are using as their own backup systems.

Do you use online photo hosting like Google photos? Do you use self hosted backup system / network accessed storage? How many backups do you have in total? Do you split by medium and location?

Apologies if there is such a question on lemmy already.

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[โ€“] sifar@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Currently Ente - looking for a replacement. Ente's apps are non-native and it shows - really sluggish and poor. I wish they would prioritise that, but they don't. But this is not really a backup - it's a sync - and like a shadow of iOS Photos app on iOS because, well, those APIs are not natively accessible to other apps on iOS. Ente is more like Google Photos' FOSS and E2EE alt.

For actually backing up my personal data (including videos and photos) I use:

  1. borgbase (with borg's GUI Vorta; FOSS and E2EE)
  2. backblaze b2 (using restic's GUI backrest; FOSS and E2EE) โ€“ these both have exactly the same personal data being backed up.
  3. then there's tarsnap (this is a much smaller - must save at all costs - data set). Tarsnap is very unwieldy (literally stuck in time - not in a good way) but I have been backing up since long and I do not have another reliable solution. Its client code is readable publicly - don't know it's FOSS or not; apparently not. But E2EE.

(1 and 2 are really great apps!)

I also use a sync tool with a lifetime plan (but it sucks and I am finding a replacement, so won't even name it; it says E2EE but they are so irresponsible that I removed anything sensitively personal from sync set). PS. This was my first and last lifetime anything of my life.