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.
Cold backups, anything else is vulnerable to hacking and electric damage.
But it’s important to scrub the backups from time to time, so it’s not when your hard drive dies that you discover that your backups were corrupted.
If files are really important then I would get 2 backups, one hot synchronised daily or hourly and a cold synced once a month. But for hobby photos I find that one backup is enough.
Cloud hosting is out of the question for privacy and cost reasons. I have almost 1TB of photos, I can buy a lot of hard drives for the price of just one year of cloud.