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Been using a Synology NAS for the past year for automatic photo backups. Take a photo, it gets copied to my drive at home so long as there’s internet access available. No issues so far. Turned off my backups to Google.

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walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What happens when your Synology fails? Do you have offsite backup to Backblaze or something similar?

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- jaschen@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is my setup using the 3, 2, 1 rule:
  
  3: Raid 5 setup with 2 unused drives and setup to automatically spool up and recover if one of the drives starts failing. 2: off-site at the father in laws house (using a Xpenology super tiny PC and an external drive) 1: Monthly Backblaze
  
  While there is risk, it’s def safer if not safer than Google drive.
  
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- Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What happens when your Synology fails?
  
  I can’t speak for other users, but my Synology setup looks like this:
  
  NAS - 1 drive redundancy via hybrid RAID.
  
  Important folders have recycling bins enabled and I have versioning, too.
  
  Daily backup to a local external drive.
  
  Daily, encrypted backup to the cloud.
  
  Monthly, off-site HDD backup.
  
  This is honestly a much more secure way of storing my photos than Google Photos.
  
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- EchoCranium@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s a dual drive redundant setup. Unless something catastrophic happens, I doubt both drives will go out at the same time. I could do an offsite backup as well, but just haven’t.
  
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  - walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The number of redundant drives actually doesn’t make much difference, but it does “help”. Instead of picturing individual drive failures, picture a house fire.
    
    Also picture the next step after one of the drives fails – you’ll be copying all of that data off of your 1 good drive, putting a lot of stress on it. That drive is likely from the same batch, same age, etc. as the failed drive. The likelihood of your good drive failing during the recovery process is higher than one might like.
    
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  - DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I was very satisfied with their pricing for offsite backups, and the ease of setup. Definitely worth a look.
    
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  - beerclue@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    RAID is not backup :) And yes, it happened to me for 4 drives in a 16 drive system to fail in the span of just a few days (same batch).
    
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- Dlayknee@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Not who you’re replying to but yes, Synology will let you automate backups to a cloud/service (and you definitely should!)
  
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