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How do you actually back up and save your photos and media off of your Android phone? (self.android)

submitted 2 years ago by coldblade2000 to c/android@lemmy.ml

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I've mostly just relied on Google Photos, and I really like its features. However, I have always been deathly afraid of losing access to my Google photos account and losing all of those, so I need a better way to actually back up my photos. Right now all I do is do a Google Takeout every so often, but that's inefficient as hell.

How do you do it? How do you backup or sync your photos with a PC/local server?

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[–] Hexarei 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I selfhost a Nextcloud server at home, and use its "auto upload" functionality to automatically upload my photos and videos as I take them.

I have that server automatically backed up (in encrypted format) nightly to an Amazon S3 bucket and then to an external hard drive once a month.

[–] coldblade2000 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's pretty interesting. I've thought of setting up a Nextcloud but it didn't ocurr to me it could help out with this.

About your S3 backup strategy, I have a couple of questions, if you don't mind:

Do you essentially just make an encrypted .zip or .tgz of your whole NC instance and upload it straight? Or do you have some kind of delta updating
What S3 tier do you use? Intelligent-Tiering or something else?

[–] Hexarei 1 points 2 years ago

I actually have the files stored in a pool on a TrueNAS machine, which handles the backup process for me in an automated fashion. I have it set to do ZFS snapshots and ship those.

I used IA tiered storage for a long time; Though I actually moved to Wasabi recently, as it's cheaper. It's just easier to say S3 because people recognize it lol.