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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
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Off site backup for your existing data, in case of disaster.
Sorry to burn $200, but you'll thank me later when disaster strikes... living in an area where five neighboring cities all burnt to the ground in the course of 24 months (in the three worst wildfires in California history, back-to-back-to-back)... I have experience here.
i haven't migrated my photos from local storage to my homeserver but maybe i could when i do
maybe a raspberry pi and syncthing for external backups would work well (since it's a USB hard drive)