The digital life - backups, storage and recovery

[slowmick]

Hi team,

After 4 years of faithful service my mobile shut down one night and then never turned on again. After 2 weeks away with the repairers it came back unrepairable.
Seems my phone stopped didn't fully back up before it died so now I am faced with sending it off to a data recovery company (2 years of family photos). Anyone had any luck in this arena? My wife put me onto Payam Data Recovery. That is going to be $0 if they can't recover the data or $750 if they can. A painful lesson but not out of the question.

Also, can anyone guide a man over 50 to online storage? At the moment I am leaning towards google one as the place to back up my cat videos. Having the phone die has made me realise that if my computer goes phut then that will be 20+ years of photos and memories. Sure, we have these back up on portable hard drives but they are all in the house.

Not sure if this was easier or harder when photos were a big box of albums and loose prints.

 

[Jabubu]

I subscribe to Backblaze - I sync my iPhone's photos/videos with the Mac and that in turn is backed up through Backblaze. Also available for PC.

I find it ridiculous that mobile phone providers like Samsung, Google and Apple aren't giving away much more storage considering how cheap long term storage is and how much they fleece us for new phones which take ever increasingly larger video and photos on ever improving cameras.

 

[ozzybmx]

On the backup side.

Just before #1 son was born, I thought that I should get my digital photo back-up in order as they can never be replaced if lost.

I started with a file and named it '1 july 05' then '2 aug 05', '3 sept 05' etc.... and put all photos by month.

Currently at '209 may 23' after 18 years.

These are backed up on my computer SSD and on a spinny 2tb hard drive also in my computer which I call 'storage drive'

This storage drive has photos, videos, music, movies and programs on it.

I also have/had a 2tb hard drive in my locker at work with them all backed up there and recently I got a $200 JB HiFi gift card and bought 2 new portable SSD's

There's one in my work bag and 1 in the locker at work. I will certainly not be paying $10 a month for cloud storage just for photos

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Last year, Google said it was going to increase all Google accounts from the current 15GB storage limit to 1TB, which is a game changer but it hasn't happened yet.

You have just inspired me to do a back up tonight from the photos I took off my old phone a week or so ago.

 

[indica]

Also, can anyone guide a man over 50 to online storage?

I use google drive as I have a pixel phone and it works well and works for me. 15gb free

 

[Oddjob]

You need the 3-2-1 backup strategy. See https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

3 copies. 2 locations. 1 offsite.

I personally have a Qnap nas but have just set up a Truenas Scale server and plan to put another one at a friend's place running a VPN tunnel back to my place for overnight backups. I also save photos onto my Microsoft OneDrive which autosymcs with my nas.

Truenas and the Qnap Quts Hero OS runs the ZFS file system which allows very efficient image version backups and SSD caching.

A VPN provider like PIA or Nord and a good router running OpenWRT like a GLi.Net is super helpful for security.



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[dancaseyimages]

On the backup side.

Just before #1 son was born, I thought that I should get my digital photo back-up in order as they can never be replaced if lost.

I started with a file and named it '1 july 05' then '2 aug 05', '3 sept 05' etc.... and put all photos by month.

Currently at '209 may 23' after 18 years.

A good way to redo this if you need to is year month date and no spaces in title.
Makes sorting a bit easier later on.

'2305-Dump' etc.
Especially handy when looking to Sync over a few drives can help depending what your sync'ing is like. Lots of free open source scripts out there for this.
I sync mine and host for overseas family to another server thats open to the outside world so the family can check out and keep up to date.

 

[dancaseyimages]

You need the 3-2-1 backup strategy. See https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

3 copies. 2 locations. 1 offsite.

I personally have a Qnap nas but have just set up a Truenas Scale server and plan to put another one at a friend's place running a VPN tunnel back to my place for overnight backups. I also save photos onto my Microsoft OneDrive which autosymcs with my nas.

Truenas and the Qnap Quts Hero OS runs the ZFS file system which allows very efficient image version backups and SSD caching.

A VPN provider like PIA or Nord and a good router running OpenWRT like a GLi.Net is super helpful for security.



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PIA is usually on sale too through Ozbargain coupons or sales, seems to be the best so far.
You can also pay for it through Crypto which is handy.
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