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Simple inexpensive cloud backup? (lemy.lol)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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My goal is to to fully ditch Google Photos for Immich. I have about ~3TB of photos and videos. Looking for a super simple way of backing up the library to cloud storage in case of a drive failure without spending a ton.

Ideally, this will require nothing on my part besides copying files into a given folder. And ideally the storage will be encrypted and have basic privacy assurances.

Also if it matters my home server is running Debian. But I'd prefer something that runs in docker so I can more easily check on it remotely.

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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Why would you use SSDs for backup? I think a HDD should be fine for that.

Especially because SSDs start losing data is they're powered off for some time.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Sound and power consumption. At least in my case those are important if I was going to store data at my mothers house. Power consumption might not matter that much, but HDD sound definetly does. And even with spinning rust hardware cost would be somewhere around 250€ compared to ~20€/month of cloud storage.

    YMMV, in my scenario it's just easier to use a cloud provider.

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