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As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

submitted 7 months ago by tuckerm@supermeter.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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[–] anothermember@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just do backups, isn't that easier than using a cloud service?

[–] nicoag@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sounds easy.

To make local backups I have to do them on schedule, transfer all photos (or rsync them) from all devices to backup media. To have some redundancy I have to make a copy (unless you got a RAID NAS at home that is). In this situation you'll have a backup as recent as your sync frequency. To access the backups you have to browse the files on the drive, if it's a NAS, it can be quite convenient, but not if it's any other kind of storage.

Compare this to for example Google Photos backup. You take a photo, you have Internet connection, it's synchronized. You don't worry about redundancy, and can access the photo wherever you are with a very nice app.

[–] anothermember@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

These days I use Btrfs snapshots to do incremental backups to an external drive each week, it's manual but it takes less than 5 minutes a week, the most I risk losing is a week of data and I trust it a lot more than relying on some external service that might go down at any time or randomly decide to delete my account. For most people just worried about photos I would assume that's enough, I feel like anything else is just over-engineered.

[–] nicoag@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's a very nice solution I will look into it. Thanks.

[–] anothermember@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

This is basically the method I use:

https://fedoramagazine.org/btrfs-snapshots-backup-incremental/

[–] onion@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For most people just worried about photos I would assume that's enough

If it's not fully automatic I won't stick with it

[–] anothermember@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

I find keeping a calendar is useful for remembering routine tasks.