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It works with basically any storage because it doesn’t use any magic - AWS, LTO tapes, HDDs, whatever.It’s design philosophy is not to do too much (although it supports BitTorrent, Glacier, etc via the native clients if they’re installed locally).As a hobbyist developer, I’m already super familiar with Git.It’s Open Source and seems pretty stable.For old photos or files I don’t need often, I can just “drop” them from my servers and workstations to save storage space, knowing that there are safe copies on tape, in the cloud, or elsewhere.It works with offline storage (eg, LTO tapes, HDDs in a storage unit) super easily.

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There is no central point of failure - there is no index server that needs to stay online, any cloned repository has a full list of files.

This means I’m not too concerned if Git annex development stops, or more importantly, if I want to get files off a LTO tape in 10 years. There’s no “magic”, or proprietary database. My files are just regular files/symlinks on a filesystem. Cold Storage is so useful when a server blows up. Yep, I backup everything to tape as well.

Cold storage (my storage unit) Very similar to servers -storageunit.

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I don’t want to publish my real disk serial numbers on the internet.

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that’s Hard Drive, at home, in a server called “storinator”, with a disk serial number starting “ABC….”.

Servers - For example HDD-home-storinator-SN-ABC.

Git annex allows me to name each repository that I clone, and here’s how I name them My wedding photos are backed up onto 4 different mediums (HDD, SSD, AWS and LTO), in 3 different locations (home, cloud, storage unit). However, you can track exactly in which repos you have those files. Putting it simply, using Git Annex, you can add files (in particular, large files), that don’t have to be pulled down in every place where you clone the repository. It just can be used to as a really awesome way to track (and copy, check, etc) files across lots of different types of storage. Git Annex is not a backup tool, or a better storage system. Git Annex calls itself a “ stupid filename and metadata tracker”. Git calls itself a “ stupid content tracker”. Yep, even stuff like S3 and Ceph - get your account banned on S3? Your Ceph servers physically catch fire? Yep. This goes for every other storage solution.

You accidently delete a file or folder.

Google decides to delete some of your photos, or loses files.Your Google account gets banned, hacked, or locked out.Google photos does not store your original files anyway (it strips location and camera information if you download the file again).

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How to lose data with Google photos/drive You get bitrot, or ransomware, or you type something stupid and corrupt your files.Your NAS tries to float when your house floods.You spill coffee over your precious NAS.

Your power supply blows up and takes the motherboard, controller, or multiple disks with it.They’re not backup solutions - they’re single points of failure with a false sense of security. Don’t talk to me about Google Photos, RAID, etc. I don’t think I’ve ever permanently lost family or holiday photos, thankfully - but so many, including my wedding photos, photos of my newborn baby, if the digital copies are lost, they’re lost forever. This is so important now that so much of the important stuff is only digital. I can’t stop any of that happening again, but I refuse to lose any more data because I thought I could trust the storage. Busted RAID controllers, and I’ve been permanently locked out of cloud storage access, etc. It pains me that I cannot get back some of my early files from my first PCs and computers. Photo by Markus Spiske from Pexels I am paranoid about data loss