Hello,
I have around 3/4TB of photos (i store a JPG and a raw file) from maybe years. I just have them on a (external) 4TB HDD, and once a year i back them up to another (external) 4TB HDD (that i for the most part stored on the same location). I recently build a small homelab, just one old gaming pc. Now I and my family use Nextcloud notes, nextcloud contacts, nextcloud calendar, nextcloud phonetrack and more. I thought it would finally be a good time to transfer the photos to a ssd and use them with nextcloud so everyone can view the photos anyware! I run proxmox, so I want to buy one 8TB ssd (or 2x 4TB SSD Raid 0) and use it with something like truenas, to make it available for another proxmox vm where i host nextcloud.
Few questions: can nextcloud store this much? And will it cost any performance? The photos don't really have any metadata, i just stored them in a folder structure like 2017 -> September ect, will this work with nextcloud? And the most important question: how can i make a GOOD backup system for this? I tought maybe a (encrypted) backup in the cloud, but its just expensive and i dont like the dependence. Any ideas?
Hopefully you can give me some tips and insights about how you would handle this. Thank you!
I haven’t noticed anyone else bring it up, but you mentioned in passing the possibility of using a RAID 0. I’d avoid that except in very specific circumstances. They’re potentially fine for a scratch disk type of scenario, but if any member of the array fails, the whole array is toast. The chances of a failure increases with was each disk added, so a RAID 0 is less reliable than a single disk. I definitely wouldn’t want to trust my family’s photos to it.
i think nextcloud will work perfectly fine.
for backups you can either have a secondary server at a relative's home (use syncthing for syncing files) or go for a dedicated server, hetzner is pretty cheap.
I backup to Backblaze B2 (6$/TB a month), but I have much less data. I also backup all my data to another disk that lives in the same server. Id probably continue doing manual backups to external drive due to the cost of cloud backups
Cloud question:
Hetzner Storage Boxes.
Supports Snapshots. Create one every Day the last 30 days. Ez way to have another way of rolling back older backups.
Got 10TB available for ~24€.
Sync up there with rSync Protocol.
To be fair I am backing up from a Synology NAS so I am playing this in EZ-Mode :D
Don't know how easy this is to setup on nextcloud.
