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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It's crazy good for something FREE. Like infinitely better than any major crop google apple etc because you KEEP your photos. Anything you upload to the cloud is being mined by them.

The only thing I tell people is that you need a cloud backup.

I have an automated nightly worker that zips all my photos encrypts them with a 32 character password and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.

[–] fragrantvegetable@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I do something similar using restic to encrypt, deduplicate, and backup my photos to backblaze every now and then. Out of curiosity, any particular reason you choose zip over something like restic?

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use restic too, just said zip since more people might understand it easier

[–] fragrantvegetable@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago
[–] KennyBell@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.

Any suggestions and estimate pricing?

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use backblaze it's like $3 a month or something

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Agree, backblaze has been great

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 5 points 7 months ago

Wasabi is a very affordable destination for backups. And it has the advantage of not being one of the big three.

[–] devxyn@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I use backblaze, $6/TB/mo. i set it up with restic backups to get my storage usage so low, that I've used it for 4 months and haven't paid yet.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah. I just put the media location on my nas, and that is being mirrored to hetzner.