Hey folks, being the family IT man I’ve held onto all of my families photos/videos over the last 20 years

I’ve been pretty careless with the backups and I know if I don’t do anything it’s only a matter of time before I lose them

Although I’ve never used them, tape drives seem to be the best so I thought I’d ask here if anyone uses them for their homelab?

It might be overkill for a few GB of photos but I’d also use the tape drives for data hoarding purposes so it’s a win win in my book

      • smashing3606@feddit.onlineEnglish
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        18 hours ago

        OP mentioned GBs not TBs. But also, I only backup stuff that I can’t redownload, which doesn’t include my linux isos. I def wouldn’t backup 60tb of media unless its family stuff, but that’s me. You do you.

        • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          17 hours ago

          Eh it’s a lot of hq BluRay rips of disks I don’t have anymore. I could reacquire and rerip, but it’d be a total pita. The rest is personal docs/photos/etc. I’ve been spitballing sticking a NAS at my mom’s, but money’s tight right now.

    • theit8514@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      +1 for Backblaze. They have a convenient backup software too that works great. I backup my parents laptop using it, and use their S3 storage for my NAS backups.