I have this sort of permanent problem: I produce (is produce the right word for it?) too much data, and my IT setup can't cope
Through #CrossBorderRail alone I have many thousands of pictures and hundreds of videos, more than 400Gb total
Yes, storage is cheap, and I have lots of storage (external hard disks)
But damn keeping this in some sort of order, where when someone asks “have you got a picture of that border” I can find it, and get it quickly, seems a long way off…
@jon Not that I'm suggesting to go this way, but Google Photos solves (I think) those issues. Photos are geotagged, I guess, so a search by area will find them. Also, text in the picture is scanned, so it appears in searches too. So you have "just" to pay for the storage. 2 Tb are 100€/year.
Is there a no-Google alternative? Maybe Proton Drive. 3 Tb are 280€/year. I don't have experience with photo upload to their service though.
@rafa_font No, that's out - I am not going for a Google based solution 🙂
If I am going for something commercial-cloud then it will be Apple, but even then I don't actually need all the data (the old stuff) sitting on their servers!
@jon @rafa_font ahoy Jon! If you’re storing something like 400gb, then that’s not wildly different to me.
After looking at various options, I just settled on using iCloud’s family plan paying 120 EUR / year for 2tb of capacity, and I share it with my partner so her stuff is backed up, and it’s convenient.
By comparison, most cloud providers (including Euro ones) for basic S3 storage were around 0.25 EU per gigabyte / yr, which is about 100EUR yr for 400gb, then I’d need to admin it.
@mrchrisadams @rafa_font It’s more like 2Tb. 400Gb is only the #CrossBorderRail stuff. And I don’t really need it in the cloud - I need it when in Berlin and Ravières. So moving to a NAS, and putting the NAS in Ravières might be a good plan?
@jon Did you have look at @photoprism ? This might fulfil some of your requirements and runs on various NAS and Raspis.
@ilumium @photoprism @mrchrisadams @rafa_font I’d need the NAS running first 🙂 But then I’ll work out what to run on it!
@jon @ilumium @photoprism @mrchrisadams @rafa_font
I looked into migrating from Evernote to Obsidian. It seemed sensible that I could use a common file sync service for the latter but one that wasn’t bound to only Obsidian. Resilio seemed to tick the boxes - peer-to-peer replication. Another option in ‘syncthing’.
