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by owaislone 29 days ago
I've been considering it as well. I'm using 1.5TB in google one storage. mostly from photos/videos from the last decade from 4 family members.

Have you thought about backups and redundancy? I was thinking of hosting it on my homelab with backups on some cheap cloud storage but almost any cloud storage ends up costing somewhat similar to Google One so I've been a bit reluctant.

A good backup story is probably the only thing keeping me from switching.
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slaye 29 days ago
Immich promotes a 3-2-1 backup strategy in their docs you can read about: https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/

Admittedly I have not set up backups yet because my homelab setup is not very mature.

I'm running everything off a single mini PC connected to a fresh 1TB SSD. My next "homelab goal" is setting up a NAS/DAS once I can snag something affordable off eBay/FB Marketplace/Kleinanzeigen/etc.

I think there are some super cheap cloud storage solutions where you pay a lot less in costs to not have on-demand access. That is the route I was going to go personally.

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