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Ask HN: How do you backup your photos online?

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I'm from India and so far I used to backup them using google enterprise student account, but recently they have started enforcing 100 TB storage limit for each organization, just 5 GB for my account.

Using an hard disk offline is always an option but I'm looking for something online and less hazzle free and allows auto backup from iOS photos, allows one to have albums and easy sharing with others. Also allows easy migration from current google photos account keeping albums intact.

Some of the options, which I have seen are -

Google One - Easiest to auto backup, everyone around uses it, so easy to share, costs 650 INR per month

Microsoft onedrive - Never used it. Easier to auto backup?, no one around uses it, so difficult to share, costs 25% less than Google One

Dropbox - Never used it, costs 50% more than Google One.

I'm lowkey inclined towards Google One, what are the other options I have?

Why would you do that? Put them on an encrypted usb and put the usb in a safe place.

(If you’re a student, one hack I found was that on unixy things like NFS, they often don’t make full use of the physical hard drives, so find a machine with one you can write to and put your… Linux ISOs… there… then SFTP or whatever in as needed.

(Security through obscurity isn’t always bad, just be sure you don’t lose your Veracrypt keys since you will want to put everything in one encrypted volume and only decrypt locally.)

Prices may vary by region but here in UK Family O365 gets you 6Tb of cloud storage at a considerable discount to any other service Ive seen. My cloud storage is the emergency third backup for eg when the house has burned down destroying both attached and non attached copies. So i dont encrypt it - If I do need it I dont want to realise Ive lost/ forgotten my decryption key.

My understanding is that there is a cap of 1TB per person, with up to 6 people on the account.

I suppose that 1TB is still quite a lot for personal backups.

I dont backup online

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