But I have made use of Google Photos to store a lower quality rendition of all my photos and videos - so they are always available to me on my phone or a web browser...
I have then taken a full copy of the originals of everything and have that stored within a locally hosted NAS available from a web browser or as a file share... The originals are taken off phone(s) and other devices via Dropbox - automatically.
I have a daily backup from the NAS to a 2.5" External 4TB HDD.
I have that NAS fully backed up daily to C2 Cloud Storage (I have given away my brand of NAS)...
And for good measure I have made use of the Amazon Prime Unlimited Photo Storage to back up all my photos (not videos) as well....
And periodically I have taken an archive copy of photos onto yet another HDD and placed it in a drawer (I should leave it at a family members house but have never managed to make that step)...
I have a vision of having a NAS at my Kids place one day to sync my main NAS to...
Not completely bullet proof but good'ish...
Note never use flash storage for backups, it has a horrible data retention life...
I would also mention that some of my earliest camera phone videos are somewhat problematic because of a current lack of support for those early codecs ... so batch conversion to either H.264 or even now H.265 based MP4 container video is recommended as soon as you can.
Google Photos, Dropbox, Back Blaze, Time Machine - I use them all.
Yep, guess I am just looking for something completely seamless which I already have. Maybe an SSD drive?
I don’t know if they are any more reliable than hard drives.
True- at some point all hardware fails.
Forever is such a long time...
But I have made use of Google Photos to store a lower quality rendition of all my photos and videos - so they are always available to me on my phone or a web browser...
I have then taken a full copy of the originals of everything and have that stored within a locally hosted NAS available from a web browser or as a file share... The originals are taken off phone(s) and other devices via Dropbox - automatically.
I have a daily backup from the NAS to a 2.5" External 4TB HDD.
I have that NAS fully backed up daily to C2 Cloud Storage (I have given away my brand of NAS)...
And for good measure I have made use of the Amazon Prime Unlimited Photo Storage to back up all my photos (not videos) as well....
And periodically I have taken an archive copy of photos onto yet another HDD and placed it in a drawer (I should leave it at a family members house but have never managed to make that step)...
I have a vision of having a NAS at my Kids place one day to sync my main NAS to...
Not completely bullet proof but good'ish...
Note never use flash storage for backups, it has a horrible data retention life...
Wow that sounds like a lot of work Ian, but I get what you are doing. Memories are so important and you can never get them back.
Setup took the time... it all runs automatically
I would also mention that some of my earliest camera phone videos are somewhat problematic because of a current lack of support for those early codecs ... so batch conversion to either H.264 or even now H.265 based MP4 container video is recommended as soon as you can.