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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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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The good ones... Are not cheap (if someone knows a cheap option though, I'd be happy to add it to my own repertoire!)

For me, I backup with:

A second NAS
a clone to a NAS at two other homes (family), which also sync to mine
Encrypted backups to generic cloud storage

Edited to add:

You dont need to backup everything.

What is being backed up by me at all the locations above:

Content I can't replace (home photos, movies, etc)
Configs for services
Personal documents and other such data.
etc

Aside from the home movies, its not a huge amount of data. Lots of VHS conversions of graduations, Christmases, etc of long past.

Locally I back up more to the second NAS including:

Content I can replace but this is faster
Full backups of VMs
LXC snapshots
etc

So while I have a huge amount of storage at home, what's needed elsewhere is not anywhere near as much.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

The offsite NAS at the family’s house - how did you configure offsite access? Did you have to upgrade their router?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Wireguard site-to-site, they already had an OK router I recommended to them so not much effort there.

this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2025

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