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Hey folks, being the family IT man I've held onto all of my families photos/videos over the last 20 years

I've been pretty careless with the backups and I know if I don't do anything it's only a matter of time before I lose them

Although I've never used them, tape drives seem to be the best so I thought I'd ask here if anyone uses them for their homelab?

It might be overkill for a few GB of photos but I'd also use the tape drives for data hoarding purposes so it's a win win in my book

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[–] smashing3606@feddit.online 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Backblaze r2 is $6/tb/mo first 10gb are free

[–] theit8514@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

+1 for Backblaze. They have a convenient backup software too that works great. I backup my parents laptop using it, and use their S3 storage for my NAS backups.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks at my 60tb media archive

There's got to be a cheaper way.

[–] smashing3606@feddit.online 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP mentioned GBs not TBs. But also, I only backup stuff that I can't redownload, which doesn't include my linux isos. I def wouldn't backup 60tb of media unless its family stuff, but that's me. You do you.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Eh it's a lot of hq BluRay rips of disks I don't have anymore. I could reacquire and rerip, but it'd be a total pita. The rest is personal docs/photos/etc. I've been spitballing sticking a NAS at my mom's, but money's tight right now.