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<p>I beg to differ. <br>
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<p>It's not <b>that hard</b> to keep a good backup strategy.<br>
You just need to get started at all, and, yes maybe have <b>initial</b>
help from an IT expert.</p>
<p>I spent about 800€ on our NAS (Synology Diskstation + 2 12TB
harddisks), and I spend about 15€ monthly on 5TB of remote SSH
storage (no Microsoft or Google) which is the offsite backup and
encrypted. Don't use external harddisks, they are usually badly
ventilated (= die young) and just need to be dropped once and
that's it.<br>
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<p>I use <b><a href="borgbackup.readthedocs.io">Borgbackup</a></b>
to do the actual heavy lifting on several PCs, one Macbook and one
Raspberry Pi, but if you want to have a nice desktop backup GUI
you can have a look at <b><a href="https://kopia.io/">Kopia</a></b>,
which is very similar and possibly easier to use.</p>
<p>Both are fast, secure (backups are encrypted), can deduplicate
(not just "incremental" backups but "forever incremental"), and
open source (= available everywhere and forever).<br>
Backup snapshots and archives can be mounted and browsed with any
file manager - even the remote backups - so you can restore
anything at any point of time to anywhere.<br>
Borg even has a "append-only" mode where it will prevent deletion
of old snapshots, to guard against malware attacks that try to
delete your backups.<br>
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<p>Keep your data local, and create two parallel backup jobs (3-2-1
rule): one onto your NAS (hourly if you like), and one onto your
cloud storage (maybe daily).<br>
Don't backup your NAS backup: if the NAS backup breaks silently
for some reason, you'll just duplicate the failure to the cloud
and have won nothing. See <a
href="https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#can-i-copy-or-synchronize-my-repo-to-another-location">this
Borg FAQ entry</a>.<br>
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<p>Borg saves a daily snapshot of my system, roughly 700GB of data
and 400'000 files in total (not just photos), to the NAS in about
5 minutes. I have a 2013-era i5 Haswell CPU.</p>
<p>You don't need to spend $10,000 for a good backup solution.<br>
But you <b>do</b> need to get started at some point.<br>
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<p>Regards,<br>
Jens</p>
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There are solutions at scale that do the job really reliably
while using minimal bandwidth for backup, but you need to spend
at least $10,000 and keep track of a 24-hr I.T. expert who'll
charge you a bit every month. No cloud required.
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<li class="">Restore one or all files from any point in time
easily</li>
<li class="">Survive regional disaster (flood, fire,
burglary, etc)</li>
<li class="">Only back up file difference to local NAS - up
to hourly</li>
<li class="">Only back difference from local NAS to remote
NAS nightly</li>
<li class="">Recover from virus, crypto locker etc. with
minimal loss</li>
<li class="">Scalable to many terabytes (or more) fairly
easily</li>
<li class="">Digital protection from 'bit-rot' (the
greatest threat of all)</li>
<li class="">Any equipment can fail and still photos are
easily restored</li>
<li class="">Total ownership and privacy of your
intellectual property</li>
<li class="">No Microsoft, Google, Zenfolio etc. required</li>
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<div class="">I use one for my 30-year archive of about 8
terabytes. It's a bit overwhelming for an individual - you
need the I.T. expert, but the solution does exist and
eliminates the fear of failing equipment, virus, crypto
locker, regional disaster, etc.<br class="">
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<div class="">For a large studio (or a well-off individual),
this is a good deal, but for most, there just isn't a safe
and secure solution other than archival prints.<br class="">
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<div class="">I fear that there will be very few photos that
survive this generation; no cd, dvd or hard drive will
survive. Our grandchildren won't have much to remember us
by.</div>
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