Hello,

I have around 3/4TB of photos (i store a JPG and a raw file) from maybe years. I just have them on a (external) 4TB HDD, and once a year i back them up to another (external) 4TB HDD (that i for the most part stored on the same location). I recently build a small homelab, just one old gaming pc. Now I and my family use Nextcloud notes, nextcloud contacts, nextcloud calendar, nextcloud phonetrack and more. I thought it would finally be a good time to transfer the photos to a ssd and use them with nextcloud so everyone can view the photos anyware! I run proxmox, so I want to buy one 8TB ssd (or 2x 4TB SSD Raid 0) and use it with something like truenas, to make it available for another proxmox vm where i host nextcloud.

Few questions: can nextcloud store this much? And will it cost any performance? The photos don’t really have any metadata, i just stored them in a folder structure like 2017 -> September ect, will this work with nextcloud? And the most important question: how can i make a GOOD backup system for this? I tought maybe a (encrypted) backup in the cloud, but its just expensive and i dont like the dependence. Any ideas?

Hopefully you can give me some tips and insights about how you would handle this. Thank you!

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      1 year ago

      It never fails; Whenever I see someone apologizing for their ‘poor English’ it’s almost always essentially flawless (or, at least, better than the majority of native speakers anyway lol)

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      ect

      *etc., short for et cetera, Latin “and the rest”.

      But native speakers do that all the time too. I don’t know how, because nobody ever says “ect” out loud.