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Hey folks, being the family IT man I've held onto all of my families photos/videos over the last 20 years

I've been pretty careless with the backups and I know if I don't do anything it's only a matter of time before I lose them

Although I've never used them, tape drives seem to be the best so I thought I'd ask here if anyone uses them for their homelab?

It might be overkill for a few GB of photos but I'd also use the tape drives for data hoarding purposes so it's a win win in my book

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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Forget the tapes. This is hard to say but just pay for online storage. It's $9.99 a month for 2TB from Google and Apple. Your data will be safe and accessable by family if something happens to you. You could also get a cheap NAS like device like this https://a.co/d/dgsnQbr and maybe every couple of months you create a offline backup onto another device.

[–] quokka1@mastodon.au 12 points 5 months ago

@BigTrout75 @Squiddork and ffs print out some instructions on how to access it all. And tell someone where you've put that.
Consider using a decent password manager and you'll only need to let your loved ones know how to get into that.

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