Every image I’ve ever shot is stored and cataloged in a database. My kids have access to the database and when I’m gone I am thinking of putting it in the public domain through a historical group I am familiar with. That it is searchable by subject could prove valuable others.
BTW, the vast majority of my images are not family, friends, or pictures of me on vacation.
@wiltw, Individual devices on a LAN (behind a router) are by default inaccessible from the outside world. All routers, including the ones used by all ISP's, require manual configuration by the user to enable outside access (port forwarding) to devices on the LAN. This is not ISP specific; it's an inherent property of how TCP/IP was designed.
Small warning about Synology: it seems to be heading towards supporting its own drives only, which are very expensive. QNAP has worked well for me but the software has a history of vulnerabilities, and I currently have an Asustor which is cheap, based on Busybox, and works very well. I rolled my own Unraid NAS for long-term storage for two reasons: firstly, one can simply add drives of any capacity (with one minor caveat), which takes care of all the old drives I have laying around. Secondly, files are not "striped" across drives, so in the event of a cataclysmic failure the files are still accessible on the individual drives making up the cluster. Incidentally, my QNAP has a cheap Tensor dongle attached so it does face and object recognition, etc., on photos which can be useful.
I use the clouds that come with Office 365, Google, Dropbox etc to back up some stuff, via the NASes.
Warnings about huge drives and huge cloud storage: a RAID device with a failed 14TB drive may take a week to rebuild onto a replacement drive. At RAID 1 or RAID 5, your data is very vulnerable for that period. Most cloud storage is rate-limited for downloads: 1TB could take weeks. Indeed, Backblaze recommends using its HD delivery service for really big recoveries. Our Google backups-to-metal (around 4TB) take about one week to prep and then three weeks to actually download. Dropbox has limits on both size and number of files.
Because Comcast is incompetent. Even the language you use is strange. What is "internet ID"? There is no such thing in network engineering or cybersecurity fields. None of this makes any sense, sounds like a marketing bullcrap to me. I suspect they convinced you to use their software by spreading some kind of FUD. Nobody should ever need any software made by their internet provider, or any software at all. All you need is a modem and a router. No software needed.
I think that's a great project. My photos aren't that important.
Regarding family shots, I didn't mean that we have to print every last one of them. Samples are all others will want. Maybe a photo book from Blurb of family shots would be appreciated by them. I did my first one last year of my grandson's 1st birthday party.
I also scanned all my old 35mm slides of my daughter and made a digital video slide show with music, titles, etc. to playback on a monitor or TV. Originally, I gave the "show" to her on a DVD with spare backup. But then she eliminated DVD readers on her new computer. So, copied all of them onto an SD card which she can plug into the smart TV or computer. Who knows how long those will last. That's why photo prints are the best archival record for the long run I believe.
Any danger to giving relatives who visit the modem/router's password so they can use my homes' wifi while they're here?
This is a loaded question because, technically speaking, all of those boxes (routers, modems, etc) are just computers running software pre-installed by Comcast. But when they try to convince you to install some kind of desktop / mobile software, that is not necessary. Although it can be helpful for other purposes, I have the AT&T app on my phone to pay my bills and see invoices.My Comcast provide triple service: Cable TV, internet and "land line" phone connect through the internet modem/router. Do any of these services require their software running somewhere?
That computer is set up with multiple removable hard drives that he does full backups in several formats. He rotates the drives marked with dates marked on them.
Back in the days (this would be the 1990s) we had a quite few customers who used removable hard drives for various purposes. They turned out to really need the redundancy, because the drives showed substantially higher malfunction rates due to poor heat management and mostly being carried around. Of course, this isn't relevant for solid state drives, but mechanical drives, especially those old ones from back then, were sensitive to mechanical shocks. This was especially bad when they were spinning, but even when powered off, they would suffer from being moved around. Things have improved, of course. Massively so. But in the kind of scenario you describe, I'd certainly consider using SSD's instead of mechanical drives!
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