I’m currently in the middle of switching.

I’m using immich, running on a raspberry Pi, saving to my NAS mounted as a network drive. I access it remotely via a CloudFlare tunnel.

However CloudFlare doesn’t like serving video for free, so I’ma move to a VPS running pangolin and a few other security tools.

I also plan to find a better off-site disaster recovery backup solution for my NAS. Maybe AWS glacier, or maybe another NAS at my parents connected via tailscale, where I can send periodic full backups.

I have a two terabyte external hard drive. Because I don’t trust clouds anymore.

Currently Ente - looking for a replacement. Ente’s apps are non-native and it shows - really sluggish and poor. I wish they would prioritise that, but they don’t. But this is not really a backup - it’s a sync - and like a shadow of iOS Photos app on iOS because, well, those APIs are not natively accessible to other apps on iOS. Ente is more like Google Photos’ FOSS and E2EE alt.

For actually backing up my personal data (including videos and photos) I use:

1. borgbase (with borg’s GUI Vorta; FOSS and E2EE)
2. backblaze b2 (using restic’s GUI backrest; FOSS and E2EE) – these both have exactly the same personal data being backed up.
3. then there’s tarsnap (this is a much smaller - must save at all costs - data set). Tarsnap is very unwieldy (literally stuck in time - not in a good way) but I have been backing up since long and I do not have another reliable solution. Its client code is readable publicly - don’t know it’s FOSS or not; apparently not. But E2EE.

(1 and 2 are really great apps!)

I also use a sync tool with a lifetime plan (but it sucks and I am finding a replacement, so won’t even name it; it says E2EE but they are so irresponsible that I removed anything sensitively personal from sync set). PS. This was my first and last lifetime anything of my life.

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Photos + Videos: Immich
The backup repository: Veeam
How many: Don’t really know. 14 versions made daily?

I’m using Immich, and I’m hopefully setting up Duplicati with a friend so we both back up (encrypted) each others files. Self hosted, and the 3-2-1 backup rule!

Synology NAS. Had it for a few years. Comes with Synology Photos, which is like Google Photos in terms of functionality (but local, of course).

I’ve heard good things about immich too, but haven’t tried it yet.

I’ve tried Ente and that’s also a good solution for how turnkey it is.

I backup to Nextcloud and then use the Memories app to access them. I’ll admit that it’s not as flashy as Google Photos but actually it almost is.

Some interesting and technically impressive replies here. I’m painfully aware that in this context my reply will seem appallingly gauche, but… I use Amazon Photos.

I’ve got an old NAS that has all our precious photos and vids on, but Amazon Photos comes free with prime and, as the multiple firesticks we’ve got for IPTV have a screen saver that can slideshow your pictures, it means that we actually view the many thousands we’ve got on our main TVs.

What can I say - it just works, it’s convenient and accessible. I’m sure if I was a professional photographer I’d have a way different approach, but that ain’t me.

I have Immich running on my home server. That file system get regularly backed up to an external HDD. The photos are also rcloned to BackBlaze B2, including retention for deleted files for a bit.

I did Film & TV in uni. One of the things they told me as a newbie was “keep three physical copies, two in your home and one in a different location”

So I keep three physical copies, all in my home, cause none of my friends wanted to keep my external hard-drive clearly labeled “high-res dick pics”

EDIT: Nah, but seriously, before you consider online storage, do physical. SSD if you can, they last longer.

I RAID1 like a caveman

I still burn DVDs as photo backups.

An few old internal hdds that are being used as external hdds

I use r-sync to compress and store them on two external drives. Same with all my other personal files.