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.
Nextcloud for uploading all data, then Immich reading from a shared dir
(I’ve added immich to the nextcloud group, and make it read from my space in my nextcloud data dir)
Why upload with Nextcloud instead of with Immich directly?
Because Immich only handles media, and I have more than that (Signal backups, Termux, configs, Downloads, etc.). So I can either carefully splice that, hope both uploads work and nothing is lost, or upload everything via one method and point immich to the most important directories.
In an ideal world, I could just treat my phone like any other host, including permanent remote access via sftp, full borg backups and a better/cleaner fs structure.
These look very neat, thank you.
Out of curiosity, do you selfhost at home, or via private VPS?
If at home, wouldn’t eg a fire wipe out the photos? Or do you have several backups?
Almost everything is currently at home (at my fathers home, fiber internet, a basement with enough space etc.). I use borg to backup to a Hetzner Storagebox.
I only use a VPS for IPv6 addresses with rDNS and a static IPv4 with rDNS, as backup. And the storagebox, ofc.
Though, hopefully, I’ll soon get another nice deal to have a second server at my fathers place, so I can take the current fallback server back to my home, so I can actually host all my stuff there in case I need to.