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.
I’m in IT and have fucked around with various NASs and different RAID setups for decades. What will annoy my fellow nerds, but is an absolute truth, is that Amazon photos, which is ‘free’ with Prime is a far, far better solution in terms of convenience, usability and reliability than anything else I’ve been doing. We’ve tens of thousands of photos synched to it and, not only that, we actually go back and look at these memories frequently as it’s setup as a screen saver on our firesticks and other devices. We’ve literally watched a movie as a family and then spent half an hour after watching the picture slideshows that come up. Other than being part of the Amazon ecosystem which I know will garner righteous hatred (and perhaps rightly), I genuinely can’t fault it and sleep easy knowing that my stuff is safe.
Incoming hatred because Amazon, like you said.
I used it for years, and it works well, and it’s the cheapest option if you’re already paying for prime, but fuck that shit I cancelled prime and don’t miss it.
I have immich on a NAS, my phones backup to it, and I manually upload from my cameras. I have the NAS synced to a remote NAS I keep in another country with syncthing (not an option for everyone I know, but also not strictly necessary), which is backed up to Backblaze. Though that’s getting expensive and beginning to enshitify so will likely figure out another solution soon.
Building a new NAS soon and I’ll be looking at new cloud backup options then.
Do you back up to Immich via tailscale?
Did you start at Immich? My problem is I’m already set up at Synology Photos but am considering leaving for Immic. Maybe I’m crazy.
Synology’s Photos system, NAS in my home with replicated backuos to an attached second volume. Haven’t done offsite backups tho and that eats away at the back of my mind a tiny bit constantly. Just so damn expensive and inconvenient to back up well over a terabyte of photos and videos offsite in a zeeo-trust way (as in the backup provider or attackers oe law enforcement cannot ever decrypt them)
When (if?) it enshittifies I’m pretty sold on immich as a replacement tho, and I’m not sure yet how I’d do, like, auto backup from my phone, that shit just works crazy reliably with Synology Photos
I’m trying to make the leap from Synology to Immich.
