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.
I have 2 external SSDs that I rotate keeping them offline and one offsite.
I backup weekly though my most used files are synced online so is sufficient for my use case.
Edit: I use Syncthing to backup photos/videos from phones to my laptop so they’re included in the above.
I was going to point out that in many arrangements like this - which used RAID - the disks are stressed a lot due to the full synch a lame raid1 would have required; but you’re not doing that. I think you’re just bringing in the disk and synching files over to match it up, and I think that’s a better move. If you’re using syncthing for that, then that may be a pretty good setup. Are you doing the synch of the travelling disks via syncthing too?
No, I physically connect the drive, backup my files, then disconnect and swap out for the off-site drive.