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  • @Dave@lemmy.nztohomeassistant@lemmy.worldFeature request?
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    7 days ago

    The thing is, they spent those years building out the voice assistant support. That was probably a better use of their time than reworking the entire interface to work with a TV remote, in my opinion.

    They are a small team with a lot of help from the community. You can’t tell the community what to do since they volunteer their time, and the small team has a focused road map that I think makes sense.

    I bet you could find another 100 examples of things not done for 5 years, it’s just this is the one you in particular want.



  • Haha this was my first thought too.

    Immich is very clear: “⚠️ Do not use the app as the only way to store your photos and videos.”

    In that case, you have your content elsewhere. Make a backup of relevant volumes and a database dump (for your albums and such) and then try updating. Roll back if it doesn’t work. If if you don’t have much in the way of Immich meta data, and the upgrade didn’t work, then you could just start from scratch and re-import your content.




  • Wow, a lot of variation in this thread!

    I get all my data to my server, then from there I have borgmatic do incremental backups to a backup drive on the same machine (nightly cronjob).

    From there I use Rclone to get the encrypted borg backup to Backblaze B2 for cloud storage.

    So for 3 2 1, my 3 copies are the original, the local backup, and the cloud backup.

    My 2 media are local hard drives and cloud storage (I think it’s fair to consider this a different kind of media).

    And my 1 offsite is the cloud backup.

    Now I’m dumb and have a fear of screwing something up so I have also started burning M-Discs of my critical data (everything except TV/movie/music stuff I can redownload). Though this was a lot more expensive than I was expecting, because of aforementioned me being dumb I already screwed up two discs (they are write once). I’m also doing two copies of each disc.

    Also I have photos/home videos additionally stored in ente, they are super important to me and I wanted a separated copy someone else is looking after.





  • Seems the only M-Disc capable writer I can find locally is a portable USB-C connecting one, so if I go with it I’ll probably just store it with the discs. In theory M-Disc is supposed to be resistant to the kinds of things that destroy regular CDs, but making a second copy does sound like a good idea. I could even store the second copy somewhere else (another house) to protect against fire. I have cloud backup but you never know what’s going to happen over 50 years. Or if I die in the fire and no one knows I have the cloud backup.



  • The idea is that I’d swap out drives every 5 years or so. If USB A is no longer in use I’d swap out at that point for something newer. Plus the drives would be powered on every year for the update, it’s just the point that I stop doing it (too old/hit by bus/etc) that the clock would start ticking.

    I do like the M-Disc idea though. Probably a similar price, and more in line with the shelf-stable solution I was looking for.