Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?
by viraptor on Friday September 15, 2023 @07:06AM
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Same here, paperless changed my life. At my previous place I was also using one of the services where you get assigned an address with a fake unit number and they receive/scan/email all your post. The current country has much less paper mail, so I stopped, but would recommend that approach in general.
I'm also mirroring the family Google photos locally and backing it all up to rsync.net.
Regarding retention - everything gets kept, I don't care about retention rules. Things are tagged so a payslip from 2001 is still there if I ever need it, but I won't see it otherwise. It would cost more to think about it that the few hundred MB that it costs in storage space.
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?
by grvdrm on Friday September 15, 2023 @07:39AM
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Interesting solution. Looking at the pricing for rsync: do they charge you for data transferred or data at rest? Or maybe I’m misunderstanding their pricing altogether. Also what are you using to actually sync?
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?
by rovr138 on Friday September 15, 2023 @07:56AM
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You get access to a shell via ssh, https://www.rsync.net/products/platform.html
Looking at, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Arsync.net%2Fproducts&t=ipho...
You have rclone, sftp, rsync, restic, borg, synology and other.
My understanding is there’s no bandwidth pricing.
(I’m sure they’ll show up and clarify it. Amazing they always seem to do so)
Backups via restic end up on backblaze. Haven’t gotten around to set up the local backup. This is a good reminder to do so. :)
The photos end up in iCloud and Adobe with a backup in backblaze. Not so happy yet with this solution. But most alternatives I tried weren’t as comfortable.
Edit: The paperless ngx server is a low power machine that runs in my local network.