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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • Well. In fact there are 2 paths. The first path is to go purely Cloud. It won’t cost that much (Google Drive 5Tb). Problem is working with Lightroom, and having grandfather-father-son type of backups. But this wil work for most people. I sure will.

    Second is one system (like mine above, which is just my way of doing things), but be prepared for the cost (3 x HDD + some subscriptions + learning curve (Google Cloud Storage, Hyper Backup, etc…).


  • After a few years of trial and error, this is my setup / workflow:

    On a higher level:

    - One 12Tb HDD on local PC holds the photo’s folder (see below, with 3 subfolders). This HDD gets replaced every 4 yrs.

    - This folder gets backupped (one way mirror via Pure Sync) to a Synology NAS where the backupped immediate gets a 2nd copy to a 2n HDD (this means I have 3 copies in my possession: one on the local machine, 2 on the NAS).

    - This NAS gets periodically backupped (grandfather-father-son) via Synology Hyper Backup to cheap cold Google Cloud Storage “in case of disaster”. The NAS HDD’s are replaced every 5 yr.

    - The albums folders (only 500Gb) gets mirrored periodically to a cloud service (in case One Drive) via Synology Cloud Sync (also a second “in case of really big disaster”)

    On a lower level:

    - The 12Tb HDD holds:

    A. a decharging folder in which all pictures post 2020 reside on a year/month/day basis

    (these pictures go into collections via Light room, so no subfolder stuff necessary here)

    B. a folder with subfolders per holiday / event / shooting session for everything pre 2020

    C. an albums folder with a few hundred subfolders with lighter JPEG exports in it (holds let’s say “the finished product”)

    I work in Lightroom where all pictures are accompanied with ther XML file, so in case of disaster (Lightroom settings lost), at least the work I have done on one specific file can be recovered