[j1elo]

Some friends have set a NAS up, and I'm doing the same, but most people seem to replace the cloud with a NAS while ignoring a crucial point that cloud providers do for you: replication. Are you handling that in yours?

It's an upcoming disaster waiting to occur, having their own private NAS but not backing it up somewhere else, only relying on the RAID reconstruction abilities of whatever they bought (and that's for those who bought the much more expensive units with 2 or 3 disk bays... don't get me started with those cheaper single-disk Synology ones)

[criddell]

How well do the NAS-based programs work for search? Can you search for photos with dogs, for example?

[thathndude]

The short answer for me is “no.” And that’s why I just can’t bring myself to sever the cord (and never will). I just don’t trust myself (and only myself) with a lifetime of photos of the kids.

[mishafb]

You could encrypt and archive everything and back that up periodically with rclone, or get external hard drives with a copy and store them separately

[j1elo]

Yes, that's exactly my idea. I recently purchased a pCloud storage offer for Black Friday, and will use rclone to make full copies of the NAS itself. The good thing of doing that, is that the storage provider doesn't ultimately matter, if you want to change providers it's just a matter of uploading a new copy.