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📣 l1feh4ck

How do you archive your personal files on the cloud


How do you archive personal files? I’m considering Google Storage Archive or S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

I’m comfortable with the tech but want a solution my wife (non tech) can use independently.

I also need a cost-effective way to archive mobile photos since Google Photos feels expensive.

Any suggestions?

  👤 solardev Accepted Answer ✓
Is it really expensive...? I currently pay for the $3/mo 200 GB plan and share it with my partner. 18 years of photos takes up about 100 GB and the rest of it is shared across Drive, Gmail, device backups, etc.

It's only $10/mo for 2 TB of storage, or less if you pay annually. Sure, that's a bit more expensive than buying cheap cloud storage, but you know how much I've had to support my non-techie GF over the years? Pretty much zero. That peace of mind and "just works" is easily worth the few dollars.

Now, if you have many many terabytes of files, that's a different story... maybe put YOUR stuff in cold storage (in the cloud I mean) and just keep the shared photos and such in Photos?

👤 toomuchtodo
Family Dropbox, FastMail, and Apple Photos are archived to Backblaze B2 on a schedule, running in a Docker container on a VPS.