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Yeah hard lesson learned indeed. I am slowly working on redundancy with my data, so looking to HN for solutions.

I would strongly recommend signing up for either Backblaze, or using something like iCloud Photos or Google Photos.

My entire 100,000 photos, 20 year library is now in iCloud photos. It's constantly synced and backed up to icloud. Then I have it pulled down in full to a mac that then backs up to backblaze.

Lots of ways to do it, but thats one. :)

For $5-10/month you can get unlimited backup from a machine with Backblaze including your external drives.

Thanks, I am also on iCloud but nearing its limit since I am on iCloud's family plan. I was wondering how did you pull everything to your mac?

You can just add more storage. Of course you could violate TOS and lose access, so still you need to store them in multiple different places.

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