5/1/2023 0 Comments Photo video plus![]() But they've all fallen by the wayside as camera phones have gotten so damn good. And even bought a nice camera specifically for when my son was born at the recommendation of Shawn Blanc. It Works For Me?.ĩ9% of my family's photos and videos come from mine or my wife's phone. Over the last nine months I've settled on a more manual, monthly backup strategy that I've found to be a good compromise. In hindsight, I think that was too lofty a goal. My aim back then was to make as much of the process as automatic as possible. But it (surprise!) turned out that the Rube Goldberg machine I had created using rclone, rsync, and the Google Drive API as a workaround way to access my Google Photos, was a little too fragile. The last time I wrote about this topic I thought I had everything figured out. If they're only stored on Blu-rays or magnetic tape drives kept in a bank vault, that kinda defeats the purpose. Unlike other types of long-term data storage, the whole point of keeping your photos and home videos safe is to be able enjoy them. And also from a usability point of view.That means ensuring nothing ever gets lost. Purely from a data safety perspective.Instead, I want to specifically talk about how I'm managing my family's photo and video archives from two perspectives: In fact, I do go into all of that here and here. ![]() ![]() I could go on and on about how the backup options available to consumers have evolved as well as how we're simply generating exponentially more data. There's no need to rehash how much things have changed since then. The first post I ever wrote about backing up my data (posted to the blog of a former employer) made it to the front page of Digg back in May 2006. So when those two topics intersect, holy cow do I ever proudly fly my geek flag. And the lives of the people I love are likewise documented through the digital archives I keep. My life, to a certain degree, is documented through the literal data I've created over the years. Part of the reason for that is my own obsessive personality traits, but also because of my affinity for nostalgia and history. Two of the topics I've written about the most on this blog are backing up your data and also photography - not professional, artsy photography, but more in the sense of your family's photo and home video library. ![]()
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