Archive photos to DVD (James Orr)

[Henrik Hemrin]

Addition about Borgbackup.

I am relatively new user of Borgbackup and I haven't explored all 
details in settings. I use Vorta, a graphical interface for Borgbackup, 
also free and open source. https://vorta.borgbase.com/ If you do not 
want to dive deep into Borgbackup details and use command line, I 
consider Vorta as a good choice for Borgbackup.

Regards
Henrik

Den 2024-02-26 kl. 16:31, skrev Jens Benecke:
> I beg to differ.
> 
> It's not *that hard* to keep a good backup strategy.
> You just need to get started at all, and, yes maybe have *initial* help 
> from an IT expert.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I use *Borgbackup <borgbackup.readthedocs.io>* 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 *Kopia 
> <https://kopia.io/>*, which is very similar and possibly easier to use.
> 
> Both are fast, secure (backups are encrypted), can deduplicate (not just 
> "incremental" backups but "forever incremental"), and open source (= 
> available everywhere and forever).
> 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.
> 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.
> 
> 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).
> 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 this Borg FAQ entry 
> <https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#can-i-copy-or-synchronize-my-repo-to-another-location>.
> 
> 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.
> 
> You don't need to spend $10,000 for a good backup solution.
> But you *do* need to get started at some point.
> 
> Regards,
> Jens
> 
> 
> Am 25.02.24 um 13:48 schrieb James White:
>> 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.
>>
>>   * Restore one or all files from any point in time easily
>>   * Survive regional disaster (flood, fire, burglary, etc)
>>   * Only back up file difference to local NAS - up to hourly
>>   * Only back difference from local NAS to remote NAS nightly
>>   * Recover from virus, crypto locker etc. with minimal loss
>>   * Scalable to many terabytes (or more) fairly easily
>>   * Digital protection from 'bit-rot'  (the greatest threat of all)
>>   * Any equipment can fail and still photos are easily restored
>>   * Total ownership and privacy of your intellectual property
>>   * No Microsoft, Google, Zenfolio etc. required
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> james white
>>>
>>
> -- 
> Regards, Jens
>