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Ask HN: Does anyone have a cold storage for their cloud photo backups?

3 points by szemy2 ↗ HN
Hi HN!

I'd like to make sure I have a copy of all my pictures that I have on google photos, just in case (google shuts me out, google loses them, etc.).

What is the best method to do this in an encrypted manner?

Ideally I would save it to a hard drive once in a while.

Alternate options are to pay another cloud provider (eg.: iCloud or OneDrive), but I'd feel more secure with a hard drive and probably costs less in the long run.

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bosch_mind
Self-hosted nextcloud with Hetzner storage box
szemy2
Why did you decide on using this solution? How much are you paying for it?
piceas
I went this route. I replaced Dropbox with nextcloud and various backups with Duplicati on Hetzner a few months ago.

Nextcloud seems to be mature enough to mostly work. The sync issues are worrying but not a deal breaker so far.

As with Dropbox, it has a bunch of unnecessary but kinda neat extras. Except they don't work or don't work well enough to use.

Duplicati and Hetzner was easy and convenient. It seems to work from my non-rigerous tests.

For now, backups and sync for about the same price as Dropbox is a net win for little effort.

bosch_mind
Because I control the stack and security, access, etc.

I pay like $7 for the server and $3.50 for the storage.

I plan on self hosting the hardware and just paying the electricity, which should be about half the cost per month.

I also host a lot of other apps on the box though like selfmade apps, VPN, nginx routing stuff

faebi
I just buy a hard disk every other year and throw a google export there.
szemy2
How do you encrypt it?
recrudesce
I use a docker build of this on my Synology NAS: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync

Then I have a task set to start the docker container up at 2am every morning, which then automatically backs up any new images, then the docker container stops.

Works really well.