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

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Tape is unfortunately uneconomical for regular people due to the drives costing so much, unless you get a used, older generation one.

    How many GB’s do you mean? Maybe try some optical discs, BD-R at 25GB maybe.

    Otherwise just rent some online storage. Hetzner Storage Box is cheap and Storage Share is only slightly less cheap, and has lots of sharing features (it’s really NextCloud).