> Self hosting my photo albums
I used to do this, until I learned the value of offsite backups.
Learn from my mistake (if you aren't already :) ).
I used to do this, until I learned the value of offsite backups.
Learn from my mistake (if you aren't already :) ).
My photos are on: Captured devices(phones, camera). Immich on my homelab, and google photo(which is lossy, but better than nothing).
Granted, an average person most likely will never mess up, but in google-land the surface area where to make that mistake is quite large.
I didn't check ToS of proton drive, but in my experience, every cloud storage has requirement about what kind of data is allowed to store(after all, they dont want to accidentally store illegal stuff).
This.
I then tested restore vis kopia desktop onto my desktop to validate restore works.
13 eur for 5tb is more than enough for immich backups for my personal use.
Inherently to inner copy it provides some redundancy.
Backups need more than one copy.
Constructing a RAID5 with 4 drives provides failover and recovery if one of the drives dies.
A real backup protects both against hardware faults and accidental deletion.
Within a storage array though it does provide redundancy at that level, and generally speaking most people don’t access a raid or NAS at a shell level only where they drop rm -fr’s
Separate and offsite backups are non negotiable, however running a raid 5 locally can greatly reduce storage rebuild/restore time, if a single drive fails the rest of the raid continues to work fine until replaced.