Nothing. I quit making (digital) photography for anything personal, aka memories worth preserving, the day I realized I could no longer trust tech (and the companies behind them, or even our own governments) to respect my privacy. I now only do ‘useful’ and temporary kind of photos, stuff that have no personal value to me and that I see no interest in backing up.
As for videos, i don’t do personal video either and for movies, well, I own the DVDs I purchase. Plus, I have two copies on external drives (not as much as a backup but to make my life simpler ;)
Videos, pictures, music, documents, and all of my family’s computer backup files are stored on a local server that has five large drives. Carbonite is used to backup the server. I only need the basic plan.
First, it gets saved to my main working partition, which is a 9-SSD ZFS Raid-Z array with double redundancy. (Can lose two drives without losing any data.)
It then gets automatically uploaded to my cloud backup, MEGA, with end-to-end encryption.
And finally, once per night, all files in my main working partition are backed up to my backup partition, a 3-HDD ZFS Raid-Z array with single redundancy. (Can lose one drive without losing any data.)
(And, of course, ZFS is copy-on-write, which means anything that’s deleted or overwritten can still be recovered. Old versions of either partition can be mounted and accessed as if they were other drives. Especially useful in cases of accidental deletion or ransomware attack, etc.)
Synology. Syncing to their cheap cloud storage.
Immich
Currently, nothing.
I store my photos on a 4TB local drive in my computer.
This autumn though, I have accepted that I need to bite the bullet and over pay for the last two drives in my NAS build.
I currently have four 8TB drives, but need two more to complete my plan for a zraid2 32TB storage array.
Filen and koofr
Manual backups to externals - honestly nothing that really gets revisited that often so dont feel the need for setting up anything more complex.
For my own, absolutely nothing, i don’t like pictures. I will gladly let those disappear every time i switch the phone.
For my wifes, just from time to time coping those from mobile to PC and storing it on 2 different hard drives.
Local NAS with Nextcloud open to the www.
nothing fancy. manual backup to externals. store at home and the office. checksums are saved on the drives, and re-verified whenever we dig one out to fetch some files or to add more. don’t really need more than that for photos and home movies, so no nas or cloud.
Local NAS
Ente.
