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I've been meaning to set this up. which NAS do you use, and do you like it? how do you sync it with local copies for editing? I shoot 10k raw photos a year and editing with remote storage is too slow, but it gets unwieldy locally.

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Not OP but I use an NVME enclosure with a 4 TB drive in it for my main staging area (I have about 100,000 photos from 4 years on it right now.) This offers fast storage for editing. I highly recommend against the Samsung T7 as it would get hot and throttle way too easily.

I try to rsync the drive to my homebuilt NAS any time I add photos. At this point I feel comfortable formatting SD cards.

The NAS is set to backup to Backblaze using restic every night at 3am.

I'd like to add one more backup into the mix, but cloud storage is expensive.

Thanks, that's helpful. I've had a number of NVME enclosures and have thermal issues with most of them. As a one-off hack, it can be helpful to lightly spray with rubbing alcohol if you need to cool one off during a large transfer.

FWIW, the T7 is not an NVME enclosure per se, but rather a "portable hard drive." Its issues are well documented in forums.[0][1][2] I've known a couple friends in real life who've owned it as well, and they ran into the same issues I did.

I'm now using an OWC Envoy Express Thunderbolt 3 enclosure with a 4 TB WD Black SN850X and have no issues whatsoever. Very happy with this solution!

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/q8zvyt/samsung...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/kky9g5/my_sam...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/qp4m1h/white_d...

Do you use encryption and/or compression on the hard drives or cloud? That’s my main concern with disaster recovery - feels so much easier if it’s literally just raw files backed up everywhere instead of needing software.

They are just an rsync clone on my NAS (so raw files), but restic uses encryption and compression when backing up to Backblaze.

There are other approaches, but I appreciate having the dedupe & snapshots, and I encrypt any potentially sensitive files that I send to the cloud.

I went all out and got a Synology DS1621+ with 5 14TB drives. I don't really do photo and/or video editing so I'm not sure what the requirements for that are. I access it through Immich but I've also got a few shares mounted through NFS which is very fast imo.

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