I’m stuck with 600/30 so would be very happy with 8000/5000! I can’t wait for Fiber to arrive.
I use immich, you can actually export your google photos account and import it there. But you’re responsible for backup, which can be a burden for some (or you don’t care, whatever floats your boat).
If you plan on using NextCloud, there’s a similarly fantastic app i heard of called Memories
Both have facial recognition and so on.
But if you try to keep it simple, most NAS offer out of the box something for galleries.
Cloudflare just took down several services I use. Having own services that don’t go down with these various SPOFs sounds good right now.
2 Likes
Coming back to your questions. I’m no expert but:
-
Couldn’t you create a usergroup on your Synology NAS with a specific access right to a specific folder? And then create an account (changable password) for each one?
-
What kind of mesh network are you talking about? Just your Wifi routers? If I would replace my old mesh routers I would probably go with a pair of Asus ZenWifi BT10 or TP-Link Deco BE65.
1 Like
I just ordered this. IP67 water-proof and can handle a house fire for up to 30 minutes. I’ll store my external HDD and external SSD in it and put it into the basement. Just to have a 100% safe offsite-copy of everything.
I would neither call this 100% safe (what if the fire takes longer than 30 min? what if someone robs you and steals the box?), nor off-site (it’s in your basement, so basically the same location just a different room).
What about backing up to the cloud with e.g. backblaze? Synology supports it out of the box and should be quite cheap, sonething around 70 bucks per year for 1 TB.
1 Like
Well it’s a big modern building that was finished 3 years ago. Thick concrete walls, high basement ceiling, water sprinkles in the basement. There is just no way a fire in the basement would have enough time to get through the box.
I’m not saying it’s impossible that something could happen to it. I’m just saying it’s extremely unlikely that all 3 copies (NVME RAID1 volume in my NAS, internal NVME of my PC and the external SSD in the basement) get destroyed at the same time leaving me no chance to replace any of those copies. I just need 1 of those 3 to rebuild/replace the other 2.
P.s. I’m not going back to cloud storage. That was the whole point of this thing 
Just keep it off the floor to avoid flooding risk 
I wouldn’t be too worried about a fire in the basement either.
Depending on electrical circuitry, it might be possible to have a ‘live’ server in the basement with network over power lines. That way you can back up to the 2nd location without physically schelpping stuff around.
2 Likes
I didnt follow the thread and I am sure that you setup is pretty perfect.
But one point about this box:
There are standards for fire safe storages (like safe). For paper inddor temp dies not exceed, I think 170C after a specific time in a fire. But electronics are mich more sensible. I think above 50C and a certainy humidity they can take damage.
I do not recall the details, I researched this some years ago. Quick googeling brought me to DIN 1047-1
2 Likes
Yes. I remember there being fire safes for documents and fire safes for media/data.
So now all @Cortana needs is an active cooling rig for his SSD safe, and also a waterproof backup power supply next to it in the basement. 
1 Like
Or he can just pad the disk in a silica aerogel.
I don‘t really expect that a fire could happen in a modern basement. And even in the extreme unlikely event it would, it wouldn‘t have enough time to actually reach the inside of the box. Plus it‘s waterproof and roughly 1.5m above the ground.
It‘s better than keeping it at home (one point failure of a single big fire) or at the office (inconvinient for updating it).
Office could be a good potential 2nd site if it is permitted and secure. Why? Because it is another location and one that you are going to anyway, which makes it more convenient. I rarely go to the basement, but have to go to the office regularly for work.
1 Like
I backup the most important things in cold storage (an external HDD not connected to the internet) every quarter so in case I get hacked, I have at least most of my data.
May be you could drop this cold storage in another building.
You could park one at your parents house once a year, just in case something happened to your building.
1 Like
I just made my own private Discord channel with push notifications on my iPhone. There I enabled a WebHook which sends me custom noticifations from my NAS. So far I tried it with Fail2Ban which works flawlessly. As soon as a new IP is banned (after 5 failed logins) I get the notification with all the details.
I set Fail2Ban to ban an IP for 1 hour with 5 failed login attempts. 2 bans within 24h results in a 2 days ban. This should lock out all bots. But so far no bot tried it.
Wouldn’t that be annoying? My old server would issue a ban every few seconds. You might want to check out gotify too.
You know the answer is always: “why not both?”
5 Likes