The best way to backup my photos

[DanielPT]

Hi all

Just setup a Turkies google one 2TB plan.

 

I want to backup my photos on my Unraid server. But i cant figure out the best "way to do it" automatet/secure and cheap.

 

1: Duplicacy to the google drive ?

 

2: A VM with google drive on it and sync it with the "picture" folder

 

What do you think?

 

Thanks!

[apandey]

I use rclone sync to keep a backup of my Google drive

[TimTheSettler]

On 5/9/2023 at 3:30 AM, DanielPT said:

1: Duplicacy to the google drive ?

 

I'm not a command-line guy so I would go with #1.

[MrGrey]

I use nextcloud because as soon as you put your *stuff* on some *other* drive; it belongs to *them*, period!

 

MrGrey.

 

[apandey]

22 hours ago, MrGrey said:

as soon as you put your *stuff* on some *other* drive; it belongs to *them*, period!

This is pure FUD. Nothing wrong with running your own infra and having full control on your data, but you are misrepresenting things here. Here is what Google Drive terms say: "You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours" 

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2450387?hl=en

 

I personally use backblaze as my off-site backup, which of course is purely storage on rental, since everything there gets encrypted with my own key. This is in addition to 2 local backups (one on unraid). I do this because I truly care about my photos and know that I am not the best running infrastructure and might end up losing data if all I had was my own storage infra to hold them

 

Edited May 21, 2023 by apandey
Added Drive ToS link

[TimTheSettler]

"Belongs to them" has a few meanings.  Any data that's "out there" is "out there" which means that it's sitting outside of your network so Mr. Grey is partially correct simply because someone else has it.  What they do with it is another thing.  If Google or some other site says that it's your data then that's all well and good but they still have your data and you need to trust that their network doesn't get hacked and then your data is no longer yours alone.

 

This is why I like the idea of using a cloud service but having the data encrypted which is what apandey is doing.  Even if the backup site is hacked your encrypted data has no meaning to the hackers.