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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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I have around 20TB of data, constantly growing & need access to it semi-regularly (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically what the title says. I’m a photographer/videographer with around 20tb in separate HDD drives (currently backed up on Backblaze). I would like something that adds some security & gives me a central hub as my system is probably not feasible long term the more data I have. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm also a photographer and videographer (hobbyist, not professional) and I use unRAID for this, on a homebuilt server. It's been a reliable solution for over 15 years now. The great thing about this option is that you can incrementally upgrade it over time as needed. The downside is you do have to do some maintenance on it from time to time.

I also backup my RAW folders and Lightroom catalogs to some external hard drives as a secondary location.

For anything I want to share online, like portfolio pieces, I just use standard cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive. Backblaze is good too.

I also got a lifetime subscription to Zoolz a few years back and did a big backup to their 'cold storage' option. Works well as an offsite archive.